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Norwegian theologian

Olav Fykse Tveit (born 24 November 1960) is a Norwegian Lutherantheologian and bishop, and the current Preses of the Bishops' Conference of the Church of Norway. He was elected to the post of general secretary of the World Council of Churches on 27 August 2009.

He entered office on 1 January 2010, for a proposed term of five years, and was re-elected to a second term in July 2014. He resigned from the post in March 2020, having been elected Preses of the Bishops' Conference of the Church of Norway.^[1]

Biography

Olav Fykse Tveit was general secretary of the World Council of Churches from 1 January 2010 to 31 March 2020, replacing the Rev.

Samuel Kobia. He is an ordained priest (and presiding bishop) in the Church of Norway and has also served as a parish priest in Haram, Møre Diocese, 1988–91 and as an army chaplain during his compulsory year of national service in 1987–88. He was secretary for the Church of Norway Doctrinal C Preses Olav Fykse Tveit - Facebook KAJ