{"id":5174,"date":"2017-10-01T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2022-09-07T09:22:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T07:22:12","slug":"prosti-deaneries-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/prosti-deaneries-in-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosti – Deaneries in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking at the deaneries in Norway, can help us when searching for locations.<\/p>\n

In my article\u00a0Church administration in Norway\u00a0<\/a>I wrote that the Prosti\/Denary did not appear in the sources and thus, was not all that interesting to us genealogists. Knowledge about the deaneries may still be helpful to us.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the information we got about our ancestor’s place of origin is vague. It may be a general area such as “Lofoten” or “Romsdal”.\u00a0This is where knowledge about the Norwegian deaneries, may\u00a0<\/strong>be of help. The deaneries are named and defined independently of the civil administrative units.<\/p>\n

Let’s say all you know is that your Great Grandfather came from “S\u00f8re Sunnm\u00f8re”. S\u00f8re Sunnm\u00f8re is a very general description. I have lived in M\u00f8re og Romsdal county all my life. I can name a few municipalities that I know is in “S\u00f8re Sunnm\u00f8re”, but I can not tell for sure the boundaries of the area.<\/p>\n

When searching for locations sometimes may seem like looking for the needle in the haystack, we can, by looking at the deaneries, narrow down the number of haystacks and look at the \u00a0parishes most likely to yield results first.<\/p>\n

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Map of Church of Norway deaneries in M\u00f8re og Romsdal county, Norway By Jay1279 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>], via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>g S\u00f8re Sunnm\u00f8re\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>g\u00a0Austre Sunnm\u00f8re\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>g Nordre Sunnm\u00f8re\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>g Indre Romsdal\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>g<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Molde domprosti (Ytre Romsdal)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>g<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Indre Nordm\u00f8re\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>g Ytre Nordm\u00f8re\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
<\/div>Looking at the map of M\u00f8re and Romsdal county, we can see that “S\u00f8re Sunnm\u00f8re” deanery consist of the parishes Hareid, Her\u00f8y, Sande, Ulstein, \u00d8rstad, Vanylven \u00a0and Volda.<\/span><\/p>\n

You find an overview of the deaneries in Norway by going to Wikipedia Prostier i Norge<\/a>. This webpage is in Norwegian, but you will only need to read the names of the deaneries listed by diocese. Scrolling down the page we recognise many names of areas used in Norway. We find “S\u00f8re Sunnm\u00f8re prosti” and when clicking on this we get the localparishes (sogn).<\/p>\n

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