The new cathedral of St Olav in Trondheim, Norway, will be consecrated on Sunday 19th November. The liturgy will be officiated by the Papal legate, card. Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, ex archbishop of Westminster. “The new building had to be erected because the old cathedral was collapsing and had to be demolished”, the Nordic bishops’ website explains. “The Christian heart of Norway throbs in Trondheim. The new cathedral is a sign of hope and a symbol of the reawakening of the Church in the Scandinavian countries”, the bishop of Oslo, mgr. Bernt Eidsvig, stated. Celebrations will start on Thursdays, with some Masses in the little “interim church”; on Friday, the organ will be unveiled at a recital in the new cathedral; solemn Vespers will follow. On Sunday at 12.00, the dedication Mass. Tickets for the 450 seats have been sold out, another “200 people can sit in the new parish house to watch the celebration on a large screen”, states the website of the parish, which has 6,500 devotees from over 80 countries. “As anywhere else in Norway, the Catholic Church is growing in the prelature of Trondheim too”. The programme includes a tour of the adjoining Lutheran cathedral of Nidaros, “the go-to place and the holiest place in Norway”, where St Olav, the patron saint of the country and of the new cathedral, is buried. The old church was demolished in Autumn 2014. Part of the cost (80 million kroner) has been covered by German associations and dioceses.