About Ögmundur Pálsson
Lived 1475 – 1541 (aged 65–66). Ögmundur Pálsson was a catholic priest, catholic bishop and bishop.
Ögmundur Pálsson, O.E.S.A. (c. 1475 – 13 July 1541; Modern Icelandic: ) was an Icelandic Roman Catholic prelate, who was the last Catholic bishop of the Icelandic diocese of Skálholt, from 1521 until 1540.
He was the son of Páll Guðmundsson and Margrét Ögmundardóttir. Served as Abbot in Augustinian Abbey in Viðey from 1515 to 1519. And in 1519 was elected as bishop and consecrated in 1521 in Trondheim.
He died on his way to Denmark.
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Ögmundur Pálsson was born in 1475.
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