Christian Ingebrigtsen Wold, ordained 1878.  Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church 1878-1888.

Born on Hevnsjelø, Hevne, Fosen, Trondhjem on March 5, 1841.  His parents were Ingebrigt W. and Ingeborg (nee Andersen).

He attended public school at Hevne from 1857-1859, county school from 1860-1861.  He taught trades in Trondhjem from 1862-1864.

After immigrating to the US in 1869, he worked as a tradesman from 1869-1875.  He then attended Augsburg Seminary from 1875-1878.

He served as a pastor in Fargo ND from 1878-1883; Christiania, MN, 1883-1887; Portland OR 1888; visitator, 1885-1889. 

He died on December 11, 1888.

He married Berut Aune in 1867.  She died in 1870.  He remarried in 1873, to Mathea Hilstad.

From "Norsk Lutherske Prester i America" (Norwegian Lutheran Pastors in America)

by O M Norlie
©1915

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