Former diocesan priest becomes bishop

The Holy Father has accepted the resignation (for reasons other than age) of the bishop of Oslo, Norway, the Most Rev. Gerhard Schwenzer, S.S.C.C., and has named as the new bishop Father Markus Bernt Eidsvig.

Bishop-elect Eidsvig is a native of the diocese of Oslo and had served as a diocesan priest there for several years after his ordination in 1982. In 1991 he entered the Canons Regular of St. Augustine at the Abbey of Klosterneuburg, Austria and has been Master of Novices there since 1996.

Now he's back.