History of the church and state in Norway from the tenth to the sixteenth century . dioceseof Oslo, and further, to show his zeal for Gods pureWord, the king added to Oslo (already a full burden forone man) the diocese of Hamar, which had been left withouta chief pastor. Hans Keff did not remain long in his newcapacity as Lutheran superintendent; he died in thesummer of 1545, and next year we find a new man,Anders Matson, in his office. There is only one more diocese of which we mustspeak, namely, Bergen. We have seen that after OlafThorkildss0ns death in 1535 the archdeacon GeblePederss0n was
History of the church and state in Norway from the tenth to the sixteenth century . dioceseof Oslo, and further, to show his zeal for Gods pureWord, the king added to Oslo (already a full burden forone man) the diocese of Hamar, which had been left withouta chief pastor. Hans Keff did not remain long in his newcapacity as Lutheran superintendent; he died in thesummer of 1545, and next year we find a new man,Anders Matson, in his office. There is only one more diocese of which we mustspeak, namely, Bergen. We have seen that after OlafThorkildss0ns death in 1535 the archdeacon GeblePederss0n was chosen as his successor. This man was ofa good family in Norway, and had studied in Alkmar andLouvain, where he met Vincent Lunge. In 1523 he wasin Eome, where he remained for some time, and was veryindignant at the abuses which he saw everywhere in that seems to have always been favourable to the principlesof the Eeformation, and when the king decided to have hisown kind of bishops he was quite willing to accept thenominee of the Bergen chapter to act as bishop of that. o II- U. o CO z D a: DEATH OF AECHBISHOP OLAP. 349 important diocese. In 1537 Pederss0n went to Denmark,where Bugenhagen had come in order to consecrate thenew Danish superintendents who were to take the place ofthe imprisoned bishops. By him Geble Pederss0n was setapart for the management of the Bergen diocese, and, for atime, for that of Stavanger as well. We are told he wasthe only one of those thus set apart by Bugenhagen, whomade him a gift afterwards. Pederss0ns offering was asubstantial present of wine, and the famous Lutheranon accepting it, exclaimed, Nonne decem mundati sunt, etnemo reversus est, nisi hie ahenigena.* Geble Pederss0nlived until 1557, when he died in Bergen. Thus the ancient Church of Norway lay helpless andwounded at the feet of her conqueror, who for the sake ofthe Holy Gospel and the pure Word of God (as he expressedit at the time of the coup cPetat) had imprisoned or driven
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