Bergen Anglican Church

Bergen Anglican Church is a congregation of the Church of England in Bergen, Norway.

Bergen's Anglican church warmly welcomes you, your family and friends to worship and fellowship. As part of the the Diocese
of Europe in the worldwide Anglican Communion, we are an international church community in which people from every continent and of many different Christian traditions and denominations have found a spiritual home. We seek to be a caring and inclusive community of faith, offering spiritual and practical support for those living, studying and passing through Bergen. Over the decades, the Bergen Anglican Church has become the spiritual home for many undergraduate/graduate students and professors at UIB.

We hold English language services in Bergen's beautiful twelfth- century stone church, Mariakirken (St. Mary's Church) at 11:00
every Sunday and coffee hour fellowship in Mariastuen afterwards (Mariastuen can be found directly across the street and to the right with the church image on the windows. Handicap ramp access.) We are fortunate to hold our services in Bergen's oldest building, the beautiful stone Mariakirken, recently renovated and centrally located in the Bergen city center. The church is right at the end of Bryggen, the old Hansa buildings, and by the Bryggen Museum and the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel.

A Sunday school, for children of all ages, is normally available every Sunday. It is held in the sacristy and begins just before
the first reading. The church offers many different events throughout the year:

• our weekly theological discussion group
• an annual Lenten study
• Shrove Tuesday
• Pancake Supper and two Services of Nine Lessons and
• Carols (Korskirken and Mariakirken).

The Bergen Anglican Church embraces the long, and significant Anglican musical tradition with hymns,
organ, and occasional choral accompaniment. Mariakirken boasts a beautiful new German Weimbs organ installed during the building's renovation in 2015, and we have a rota of volunteer organists who accompany our Sunday services. We also have a small a cappella choir that sings approximately once a month during Sunday morning services. The choir leads the congregation in a plainsong chant psalm and sings anthems by beloved composers in the Anglican choral tradition such as Tallis, Morley,
Byrd, Purcell, Stainer, and Wood, and many others.

Every Advent, the Bergen Anglican Church offers two services of Lessons & Carols the weekend before Christmas. The Christmas Choir is open to anyone in the congregation and wider local community who enjoys singing and would like to take part in this beautiful English yuletide tradition. Rehearsals are once a week and begin in late autumn.

Everyone is welcome at the Bergen Anglican Church. Please join us!