Per Payday is dead – Bergens Tidende

The professor, bishop and Conservative politician Per Payday is death, 88 years old, said his family said.

Payday was bishop of Bjørgvin 1987-1994.

He was also known as a theologian, historian, philosopher, professor and politician Right. He was Member of Parliament in the 1950s and 60s.

Norwegian biographical encyclopedia reviewing Payday as one of the Norwegian churches most significant and distinctive profiles in the second half of the 1900s.

Besides having been a bishop in both Borg and Bjørgvin were Payday professor of theology at the University of Oslo and in Strasbourg. He was, both as a politician and cleric, an avid participant in the public debate.

He took a theological degree already 21 years of age and later took a doctorate in both of ideas and philosophy.

Per Payroll was the brother of another prominent Conservative politician from Bergen, Lønning, who died in 2013.

Resigned in protest

in 1975, drew Per Payday from his position as bishop of Borg in protest against the liberalization of abortion law. He then worked for a period as a graduate, first as a lecturer and professor at the University of Oslo, such as research professor at the Lutheran World Federation Centre d’Études œcuméniques in Strasbourg.

In 1987 he returned to their home town, as bishop of Bjørgvin , a position he held until he retired in 1994.

For Bergens Tidende he told in 2007 about a special experience from his childhood. In the series’ Christmas gift I’ll never forget “he replied:

– I was 13 years old and my parents donated a Bible for Christmas. Of packaging I understood at once that it was a book. I could also feel the paper that a cross was embossed on the front of the book. I was terribly disappointed, but I tried to hide. I did not understand what I was going with such an extensive and complicated book. First, a year later I started reading it. When had life turned so I felt very use to it. Over the next five years I read it completely apart. No book I have had such use through life as just the Bible.

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Per Payroll was a prominent church leader, one who was not afraid to take a seat and say what he meant. He regularly attended the public debate both on television, radio and in written media. It was rarely doubt where he stood.

Per Payroll joined the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1978 and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1987. He was appointed commander of the Order of St. Olav in 2001 .

He published nearly 50 books in a variety of genres.