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- Title
Rebuilding the archdiocese of Nidaros: Etienne Djunkowsky and the North Pole Mission, c. 1855–1870.
- Authors
Newby, Andrew G.
- Abstract
The Prefecture Apostolic of the Polar Regions (‘North Pole Mission’), which ran between 1855 and 1869, was an attempt to bring the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church to a broadly defined circumpolar area. From its initial base in Alta, in northern Norway, the mission expanded to establish a presence in: Iceland; the Faroe Islands; Orkney, Shetland and Caithness; and Tromsø. This article explores the reasons behind the mission's expansion into northern Scotland, and the reaction which greeted the arrival of foreign missionaries in a region which had been relatively untouched by Catholicism in the three centuries since the Reformation.
- Subjects
ARCTIC regions; CATHOLIC missions; 19TH century Catholic Church history; CATHOLIC missionaries; DJUNKOWSKY, Etienne; CATHOLIC Church doctrines
- Publication
Innes Review, 2010, Vol 61, Issue 1, p52
- ISSN
0020-157X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/inr.2010.0003