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About Per Voksø
- Per Voksø (23 June 1923 – 28 December 2002) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and Christian leader. He was born in Bergen as the son of Julius Peder Voksø (1888–1937) and Gudrun Larssen (1891–1972).
- He took commerce school in 1941 and examen artium in 1944.
- In 1945 he started as a journalist in Bergen's Christian newspaper, Dagen.
- He participated at the foundation congress of the World Council of Churches in 1948.
- In the same year he married shipmaster's daughter Doris Paulsen.
- They got four children together.
- He was hired as subeditor of Vår Kirke in 1954, and Morgenposten in 1957.
- In late 1966 he was promoted to editor-in-chief.
- He succeeded Asbjørn Engen.
- However, shortly after the newspaper was bought by industrialist Sverre Munck.
- The previous owner was Libertas, a semi-secret libertarian organization.
- Voksø ran afoul with the new owner, and resigned after only three months in the editor's chair.
- He was succeeded by acting editor Gunnar Kristiansen.
- Until his retirement in 1986, Voksø worked as editor of publishing in Det Beste, the Norwegian version of the Reader's Digest.Voksø chaired YMCA Norway from 1955 to 1964 and was a member of the executive committee of the international YMCA from 1955 to 1961 and 1968 to 1974.
- In the World Council of Churches he was a member of the central committee and executive committee from 1983 to 1991.
- He was also active in the Lutheran World Federation.
- He chaired the Church of Norway National Council from 1970 to 1978 and the Church of Norway Council on Ecumenical and International Relations from 1986 to 1990, and had ecumenical concerns.
- In 1998 he received the Norwegian Ecumenical Prize.He was also a board member of the Church City Mission and Norwegian Church Aid, and chaired the latter organization from 1980 to 1986.
- All in all, he has been called "one of the most influential leaders within the Church of Norway" and "the most central layman in Norwegian post-war church life".
- In 1992 he was decorated as Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St.
- Olav.
- He died in December 2002 in Oslo.
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