Nicolai Lumholtz was a Danish-Norwegian bishop.
He was born in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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 as a son of controller Niels Lumholtz (1688–1763). He became a catechist in Nicolai's Church in Copenhagen in 1757, curate in Frederiksborg

Frederiksborg

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 and hospital priest in Hillerød

Hillerød

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 in 1770, curate in Nicolai's Church in 1772 and dean

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 in the Diocese of Christiania

Diocese of Oslo

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 in 1774. When Bishop Christen Schmidt

Christen Schmidt

Christen Schmidt was a Norwegian bishop.He was born in Kongsvinger as a son of vicar Hans Jacob Schmidt and Alethe S. Lemmich. He enrolled as a student in 1745 and graduated with the cand.theol. degree in May 1748. After some years as a private tutor and a priest at sea, he was appointed as vicar...

 fell ill and died (1804), Lumholtz was the acting Bishop of Christiania. However, he was only given the title of bishop in 1805, the same year that Fredrik Julius Bech took over.

Lumholtz was married three times. The first marriage, to Anne Marie Reus, lasted from November 1770 to her death in February 1779. The second marriage, to Kristin Cudrio, lasted from January 1780 to her death in June 1787. In December 1794 he married Karine Næschill, born in 1776. Lumholtz died in June 1819. His widow Karine married later Bishop of Christianssand, Mathias Sigwardt

Mathias Sigwardt

Mathias Sigwardt was a Norwegian bishop.He was born in Borre as a son of vicar Søren Sigwardt and his first wife Ulrikke Leonore, née Weinwich. He took his primary and secondary education under his father as well as teacher in Christiania Herman Amberg. Sigwardt enrolled as a student in 1791, and...

 in 1822. With his second wife he had the daughter Karen, who married Ludvig Stoud Platou

Ludvig Stoud Platou

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