Installed 1995 Name Sofie Petersen | Nationality Danish Inuit Predecessor Kristian Morch | |
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Birth name Sofie Bodil Louise Lisbeth Petersen Denomination Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark Spouse Christian Tidemand (m. 1976) | ||
Suliffiga - Sofie Petersen, Biskoppi, KNR 2006
Sofie Petersen (born 1955) is the Lutheran bishop of Greenland.
She was born on 23 November 1955 in Maniitsoq, Greenland. She studied theology and graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 1986. On 28 May 1995, at the age of 39, Petersen was ordained as the Bishop of Greenland in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark. She was ordained at Hans Egede Church, the cathedral of Greenland in the presence of Queen Margrethe II. She is the second Inuit bishop and the second woman to become a bishop in the Danish Lutheran church.
Petersen is an outspoken advocate for climate justice. She currently lives in Nuuk.
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