Ole Irgens (bishop)

Ole Irgens (22 January 1724—15 October 1803) was a priest and theologian.

He enrolled as a student in 1741, but was examined two years later and was hired as chaplain under his father.

He left in 1756 to become a ship's priest in Morocco, but citing health problems, he returned to Norway in 1760 to become vicar at Faaberg Church.

[1] He served as vice praeses of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1773 to 1780.

[2] In 1779 Irgens took a doctorate with the thesis De spiritu oris Jehovae creante, ps.