Preses (Church of Norway)

[1] In 2011, the office of Preses was changed by law to be a 12th permanent bishopric within the Church of Norway.

The first permanent Preses was Helga Haugland Byfuglien who was appointed to the position on 25 March 2011 by the Cabinet of Norway, and she officially took over on 2 October 2011 at the next meeting of the Bishops' Conference.

The Preses is also the dean of the Nidaros domprosti (deanery) in central Trondheim.

The Bishops of the Church of Norway met together rarely, with only minutes from 1877 and 1915 surviving.

[2] On 17 October 2019, Olav Fykse Tveit, the current General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, was nominated to be the next Preses.