# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olav-skjevesland
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:42:10.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olav-skjevesland"
name: "Olav Skjevesland"
slug: "olav-skjevesland"
description: "Olav Skjevesland was a Norwegian theologian and priest. He was the Bishop of the Diocese of Agder og Telemark from 1998 until his retirement in 2012, and since that time he was a Bishop Emeritus. He was also the Preses and thus presided over the Bishops' Conference of the Church of Norway from 2006 until 2010. During his time as a bishop, he was considered to be theologically conservative and he was opposed to letting gay priests serve in the church."
tagline: "Norwegian bishop"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Skjevesland_06.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
birthDate: "1942-05-31"
deathDate: "2019-09-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.24
  momentum:             2.280701754385965
  historical:           7.002520000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Olav Skjevesland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Skjevesland"
    title: "Olav Skjevesland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Skjevesland"
    title: "Olav Skjevesland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Skjevesland"
    title: "Olav Skjevesland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Skjevesland"
    title: "Olav Skjevesland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2"
    title: "Шевесланн, Улав"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Skjevesland"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav_Skjevesland"
    title: "Olav Skjevesland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q740519"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump