Gustav Johan Fredrik Dietrichson (8 April 1855 – 19 March 1922) was a Norwegian

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and

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. He served as bishop of both the Diocese of Hålogaland and the

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. Dietrichson was born in the state of

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. His parents, Gustav Fredrik Dietrichson (1813–1886) and Pauline Christine Sørine Alette Henriette Preus (1819–1900) were Norwegian

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to the United States. He came for a clerical family. His maternal uncle, Adolph Carl Preus (1814–1878), had immigrated from Norway in 1850. Preus served as the first President of the Norwegian Synod prior to returning to Norway in 1870 where he served as

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and Holt Municipality in

Aust-Agder Aust-Agder (, ) was a county (''fylke'') in Norway from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, after it was merged with Vest-Agder to form Agder county. In 2002, there were 102,945 inhabitants, which was 2.2% of Norway's population. Its area was . ...

until his death. Dietrichson himself moved to Norway where he received his Cand.theol. degree from the

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in 1878. He was the parish priest in

Stor-Elvdal Municipality Stor-Elvdal is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village o ...

from 1887 until 1897 and in

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from 1897 until 1910. In 1910, he was named Bishop of Tromsø stift. The name was changed to the "Diocese of Hålogaland" in 1918. Later in 1918, he became the new bishop for the

, the position he held until his death in 1922 in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dietrichson, Gustav Johan Fredrik 1855 births 1922 deaths Religious leaders from Wisconsin Bishops of Hålogaland Bishops of Hamar 20th-century Lutheran bishops American people of Norwegian descent