Nordic Catholic Church

In Norway the issue has resulted the establishment of the Nordic Catholic Church.

The Mission Province was founded on 6 September 2003, following the establishment of the Nordic Catholic Church in Norway.

The Nordic Catholic Church in Norway has roots in High Church Lutheranism.

The bishop of the Nordic Catholic Church in Scandinavia is Roald Nikolai Flemestad.

The Nordic Catholic Church has presently five parishes in Norway and a developing community in Stockholm, Sweden.

Since then, it has expanded to include the Nordic Catholic Church who broke away from the Lutheran state Church of Norway in opposition to similar practices and has developed a more Catholic theology.

A group of Norwegians who split from the Lutheran state Church of Norway, and go by the name Nordic Catholic Church, are under the auspices of the Polish National Catholic Church.

The Nordic Catholic Church was founded in 1999 by a group of Catholic-minded people belonging to the "orthodox opposition" in the Lutheran state Church of Norway when they left the state church due to, for example, the ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate.

The ORCCE has also been following with interest the recent development of the Union of Scranton currently consisting of the Nordic Catholic Church and the Polish National Catholic Church for Old Catholic churches disaffected with the Utrecht Union.