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About Ragnvald Gjerløw
- Ragnvald Gjerløw (17 June 1853 – 1936) was a Norwegian priest and writer. He was born in Aurland as a son of Jens Larsen Gjerløw and Anne Marie Nitter Ohnstad.
- He was a brother of Mons Klingenberg Gjerløw.
- He spent some time at sea and took secondary education before enrolling in higher education.
- He graduated with the cand.theol.
- degree in 1881, and worked as a teacher and school manager until 1887, when he became curate in Kvinnherad.
- He was then vicar in Lunde, Telemark from 1895 to 1906, in St.
- John's Church, Stavanger from 1906 to 1909 and in Stavanger Cathedral from 1909 to 1918.
- He then became dean in the Diocese of Christianssand, and in 1925 he was acting bishop of the newly created Diocese of Stavanger.
- On 1 July 1925 he resigned and moved to Oslo.
- He has been credited for playing a main role in re-establishing the Diocese of Stavanger, having agitated for it since 1919, and presented the case for Rogaland county council.
- In 1923 he was a part of a delegation (together with County Governor Thorvald Andreas Larsen and school inspector Tveteraas) to the Parliament of Norway.
- They met with the President of the Parliament and politician Tjalve Gjøstein, and also won the support of politician Lars Oftedal.Gjerløw was a member of the board of the trade union Norwegian Association of Clergy, and also of the Norwegian Missionary Society.
- He wrote some books, including Bibelske skisser and Korte søndagsbetragtninger, and contributed to the works Bibelen med forklaringer and Stavangerboken 1814–1914.
- He also translated Alfred Edersheim's seven-volume Bible History to Norwegian.
- He wrote several articles in newspapers and magazines, and favored Morgenbladet, where his nephew Olaf Gjerløw was editor-in-chief from 1920.
- He was also an uncle of Lilli Gjerløw.
- In September 1885 in Heddal he married Laura Flood, a sister of Immanuel Flood and Jørgen W.
- Flood.
- He died in 1936.
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