Sela Church
Encyclopedia
Sela Church is a parish church
Parish church
A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....

 in the municipality of Verran
Verran
Verran is a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherred region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Malm...

 in Nord-Trøndelag
Nord-Trøndelag
is a county constituting the northern part of Trøndelag in Norway. As of 2010, the county had 131,555 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-least populated county. The largest municipalities are Stjørdal, Steinkjer—the county seat, Levanger, Namsos and Verdal, all with between 21,000 and...

 county, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It is located in the village of Sela
Sela, Nord-Trøndelag
Sela is a village located in the municipality of Verran in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the rural mountain area in the west-central part of Verran, very close to the municipal and county border with Åfjord in Sør-Trøndelag. The village sits along the shore of the lake...

. The church is part of the Malm
Malm
is a former municipality, a village, and the administrative centre of the municipality of Verran in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. Malm is located along the Trondheimsfjord, about a drive west from the town of Steinkjer. The village of Malm has a population of 1,572. The population density of...

 parish
Parish
A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 in the Nord-Innherad deanery
Deanery
A Deanery is an ecclesiastical entity in both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residence of a Dean.- Catholic usage :...

 in the Diocese of Nidaros
Diocese of Nidaros
Nidaros is a diocese in the Lutheran Church of Norway. It covers Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag counties and its cathedral city is Trondheim, which houses the well-known Nidaros Cathedral. The diocese is divided into 12 deaneries . Finn Wagle was the bishop from 1991 to 2008...

. The church was built in 1997 to serve the western part of the Malm parish. The building was consecrated on 28 September 1997 by the Bishop
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

 Finn Wagle
Finn Wagle
Finn Wagle is a theologian and a former bishop of Nidaros in the Church of Norway. He was also the Preses and thus presided over the Bishop's Conference in the Church of Norway from 2002 until 2006.-Career:Wagle enrolled as a student at MF Norwegian School of Theology in 1962, and graduated in...

. This church was built near where the old Selahaugen church used to stand until the 1950s. In the forty years between church buildings, there were services held in the old school in Sela.

See also

  • List of churches in Nord-Trøndelag
  • Fines Church
    Fines Church
    Fines Church is a parish church in the municipality of Verran in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Verrabotn. The church is part of the Verran parish in the Nord-Innherad deanery in the Diocese of Nidaros. The white wooden church was built in 1913 by architect O....

  • Follafoss Church
    Follafoss Church
    Follafoss Church is a parish church in the municipality of Verran in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Follafoss. The church is the main church in the Verran parish which is part of the Nord-Innherad deanery in the Diocese of Nidaros. The wooden church building was...

  • Malm Church
    Malm Church
    Malm Church is a parish church in the municipality of Verran in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Malm. The church is the main church of the Malm parish which is part of the Nord-Innherad deanery in the Diocese of Nidaros. The wooden church building was constructed...

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK