Ordo Crucis

Ordo Crucis (the Order of the Cross) is a High Church Lutheran religious society for men and women, priests and lay, in Church of Norway.

The Order was founded in 1933 by professor Hans Ording, parish priest Odd Godal and Alex Johnson, later Bishop of Hamar.

The Order desires to renew the Church from within. Brethren also work to introduce private confession and to celebrate the Eucharist with a more Catholic content. Brethren follow the Rule of Life of the Order.

Ordo Crucis has local groups in Trondheim, Bergen, Kristiansand, Skien, and Oslo. In Oslo, Brethren have gathered to celebrate Mass every Saturday in Frogner Chapel.

Members include e.g. Torgeir Havgar, Egil A. Wyller and Inge Lønning. Also few Roman Catholic priests have sought to join the Order.

Brethren in episcopate have included Alex Johnson, Kaare Støylen, Tord Godal, Per Lønning, Sigurd Oseberg, and Fredrik Grønningsæter.

Literature

Ordo Crucis 1933-2003. Om ordenens opprinnelse, målsetting og påvirkninger i kirke og samfunn by Ove Hestvold. Kirke og Kultur, Årgang 2003, Nr 04 (pages 365-374)

External links

Katolsk infiltrasjon i Statskirken... - Mens Vi Venter, nr. 8, July/August 1994
Ordo Crucis in Norwegen by Reinhard and Hildegart Mumm. - Quatember 1975 (p. 43-46) (German)

Active Lutheran orders

Men's orders	Bekenntnisbruderschaft St. Peter und Paul Brethren of the Common Life Congregatio Canonicorum Sancti Augustini Evangelische Michaelsbruderschaft Hochkirchlicher Apostolat St. Ansgar Humiliatenorden Ordo Crucis Theologisk Oratorium St.-Jakobus-Bruderschaft

Women's orders	Communität Casteller Ring Daughters of Mary (Lutheran) Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary

Mixed orders	Communität Christusbruderschaft Selbitz Evangelisch-Lutherische Gebetsbruderschaft Hochkirchliche St.-Johannes-Bruderschaft Order of Lutheran Franciscans Societas Sanctae Birgittae Society of the Holy Trinity

Other topics	Franciscan orders in Lutheranism

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