Ivar Braut (born 1956) is a Norwegian theologian and priest. He was the Bishop of the Diocese of Stavanger from 2017 to 2019. He is considered to be a conservative bishop, a contrast to his predecessor.
Personal life
Ivar Braut was born on 28 February 1956 in Sandnes,
Norway.
He is married to Turid Bakke and together they have three grown children and six grandchildren.
Education and career
He received his Cand.theol. degree from the MF Norwegian School of Theology. He was
on 21 June 1981 at
Gand Church by the Bishop Sigurd Lunde. His first job was the
vicar of Søndre Skøyen in
Oslo. From 1982 to 1987, he was a
chaplain at
Fossum Church in
Oslo. Then in 1988, he moved to Grimstad to teach theology at the Grimstad Bible School. He worked there until 1991 when he moved to Trondheim to work at the
Ilen Church as a chaplain. From 1994 to 2000 he was the parish priest for Stord Municipality as well as the dean for Sunnhordland deanery. From 2000 to 2017, he was the senior parish priest for the
Birkeland Church in Bergen Municipality.
On 8 December 2016, he was named to the post of
Bishop of the Diocese of Stavanger, replacing the retiring Bishop Erling Johan Pettersen. Braut was
as bishop on 19 March 2017 in the Stavanger Cathedral.
He stepped down in 2019 as a result of eyesight problems.
