Ingeborg Synnøve Midttømme (born 20 November 1961) is a Norwegian

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bishop for the

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in the

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Personal life

Midttømme was born in

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, Norway on 20 November 1961.

Career

She has been the Bishop since 2008. She was elected as the first female leader of the Norwegian Association of Clergy trade union in 2003. Midttømme attended the

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and graduated in 1986. She was ordained as a priest in 1987. She worked in Høybråten Church in Oslo from 1987 until 1993. She then became the parish priest for

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in the

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region in Northern Norway from 1993 until 1997. In 1997 she took a chaplain job in Holmlia Church in Oslo. She was appointed Bishop of the

in 2008.

References

1961 births Living people Norwegian trade unionists Bishops of Møre 21st-century Lutheran bishops Women Lutheran bishops {{Norway-Lutheran-bishop-stub