Kjell Arild Pollestad

Kjell Arild Pollestad, OP (born 27 May 1949 in Hå, Jæren) is a Norwegian Catholic author, translator, theologian, philologist, and Dominican priest.

Pollestad studied Russian language and Lutheran theology at the University of Oslo, graduating as cand.

Converting to Catholicism and joining the Dominican Order in 1975, he was ordained a Catholic priest by Bishop John Willem Gran on 12 April 1980.

He was one of three presenters of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation documentary series Tre muntre herrer i Roma (Three Cheerful Gentlemen in Rome), that was aired in 2007.

In an op-ed in Aftenposten, he announced his intention to resign as a Catholic priest in 2010,[3] but eventually changed his mind.