Sigurd Lunde (bishop)

Sigurd Lunde in 1967

Sigurd Lunde (27 April 1916 – 21 January 2006) was a Norwegian bishop.

He worked for the Norwegian Missionary Society from 1942, and edited Norsk misjonstidende from 1946 and worked in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1952. He was a teacher in the University of Oslo's practical-theological seminary from 1957 to 1967. He was appointed as a curate in Ullern in 1966, was promoted to vicar in 1971 and was bishop of the Diocese of Stavanger from 1977 to his retirement in 1986.^[1]

Lunde was also a psalm writer.^[1] He was the father of news anchor Einar Lunde.

References

1. Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Sigurd Lunde – norsk teolog". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 6 January 2010.