Stavanger Cathedral

Stavanger Cathedral was inaugurated around 1125. The building of the cathedral most likely begun a few years earlier, and when it was finished it became the seat of the bishop of Stavanger. It remained the seat of the bishop until the reformation in 1537, when in a transitional period, Stavanger diocese was under Bjørgvin (Bergen). In 1539, a superintendent was employed in Stavanger, which made Stavanger diocese independent again. In 1682 it was moved once again, but this time to Kristiansand. It remained there for as long as to 1925, when the diocese was split into Stavanger diocese and Agder diocese. Since then, the church in Stavanger has been a cathedral.