Stavanger Cathedral

Stavanger is a central key site along the Coastal Pilgrimage Route. For centuries, the city has served as an important hub for travel, faith, and encounters between people along the coast. With the historic Stavanger Cathedral, its close connection to the Christianization of Norway, and its role as both a harbour city and cultural centre, Stavanger continues the living pilgrimage tradition along the route. Today, the city is a natural stopping place and gathering point for modern pilgrims travelling northward.

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.

You can get a stamp in you pilgrim passport here. If you don't have a pilgrim passport yet you can buy it at the cathedral or the tourist information.