Per Juvkam (1907–2003) was a Norwegian Lutheran Bishop. He was born in 1907 in

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county,

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. He served as Bishop of the

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from 1961 to 1977. Juvkam began his career as a

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in 1938. He served there until 1950 when he took a new job as the head parish priest for the parish of

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. In 1957, he took a new job as a priest in the

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parish in

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. After 3 years on that job, in 1961 he was named the

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of the

, based in the city of

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. He retired in 1971. Juvkam did some writing in the 1970s and 1980s during his retirement. Among his publications are a collection of sermons called ''Høgtidsdagar i Bjørgvin'' from 1977 and a book about the church in Norway ''Folkekirken – visjon og virkelighet'' from 1980. He also worked on the translation of the Bible into

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. Juvkam died in

on 22 February 2003 at the age of 95.

References

1907 births 2003 deaths Bishops of Bjørgvin Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian religious writers 20th-century non-fiction writers People from Sør-Aurdal {{norway-Lutheran-bishop-stub