Per Kørner (26 April 1936 – 27 September 2018)[1] was a Norwegian priest and anti-abortion activist.
He broke with the state governance of the Church of Norway in 1984 in solidarity with anti-abortion priest Børre Knudsen, and was defrocked by a court ruling in 1991.
He then continued as priest in the independent Deanery of Strandebarm (also known as the "Church of Norway in Exile") along with Knudsen.
[2] He joined the politicial party Abortion Opponents' List as deputy leader for the 2009 parliamentary election alongside Ludvig Nessa and Ivar Kristianslund from the "exile church".
[4][5][6] Kørner resigned from his church services in 2016 due to cancer,[2] and died in 2018.