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Rosemarie Köhn (born 20 October 1939 in Rathenow) was a bishop in the Diocese of Hamar of the Church of Norway from 20 May 1993 to 1 November 2006.
Bishop Köhn was born to a German father and Norwegian mother and immigrated to Norway in 1946.
Köhn graduated from the University of Oslo with a cand.theol. degree. Köhn worked as an assistant professor in Biblical Theology at the University of Oslo from 1976 to 1989, and principal of the Practical-Theological Seminary from 1989 to 1993.
She was bishop of Hamar from 1993 to 2006 as the first woman to be appointed bishop in the Church of Norway. She stepped down from office on 1 November 2006 and was succeeded by Solveig Fiske.
In 2004, she was appointed a Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav by King Harald V.