Protestant Reformation
Christian III of Denmark suspended the Norwegian parliament in 1535, and Denmark annexed Norway along with the Faroe Islands. In 1537 the king decreed that the official state churches in Norway, Denmark and the Faroes be reformed in accordance with the Lutheran doctrine adopted at the Augsburg Confession in 1530.
During the Reformation the old bishop's office was disestablished and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hamar was executed in 1542. The seminary was closed. The Crown confiscated all lands held by the Catholic Church, which had occupied about 40 percent of the Faroes.
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