The office of county governor is a government agency of the Kingdom of Norway; the title was Amtmann (before 1919), then Fylkesmann (from 1919 to 2020), and then Statsforvalteren (since 2021).
[1] The diocesan county called Trondhjems stiftamt was established by the King in 1662, shortly after the area was re-conquered by the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, taking it back from the Kingdom of Sweden.
The new county governor for Trøndelag lives and works in the town of Steinkjer, but also has offices in Trondheim.
This is done first by the county governor performing administrative tasks on behalf of the ministries.
On 1 January 2018, the office was re-created and at that time, the title was Fylkesmann i Trøndelag.