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St. Mary's Seminary & University

Rev. Fredrik Hansen, P.S.S. (cand.)

Dean of Seminarians
Assistant Professor of Pastoral Studies

B.A., University of Oslo
M.A., Heythrop College, University of London
S.T.B., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
J.C.L., J.C.D., Pontifical Gregorian University

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Msgr. Fredrik Hansen joined the St. Mary’s faculty in the fall of 2022. He was ordained to the priesthood in 2007 for the Diocese of Oslo, Norway. He holds academic degrees from the University of Oslo (B.A.), the University of London (M.A.), the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (S.T.B.), and the Pontifical Gregorian University (J.C.L., J.C.D.). He has served as private secretary to the bishop of Oslo, secretary to the Norwegian Council of Catholic Bishops, and ecclesiastical judge in the Tribunal in Oslo. During his time in Rome, he was Vice-Rector at the Pontifical Teutonic College Santa Maria dell’Anima and subsequently studied at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Prior to coming to St. Mary’s, Msgr. Hansen served in the diplomatic corps of the Holy See, at the Nunciature in Honduras (2013–2015), at the Mission to the United Nations in Vienna (2015–2019), and at the Mission to the United Nations in New York (2019–2022).

Selected Courses Taught

  • Canon Law I
  • Canon Law II
  • Ecclesiology
  • Introduction to the Catechism

Service to the Church

  • Ecclesiastical Judge
  • Diplomatic Corps of the Holy See

Selected Publications

  • “The Threefold Power of Governance,” in Studia canonica 48 (2014): 373-410.
  • “Papal Legates and the Jurisdiction of Diocesan Bishops”, in The Jurist 78 (2022) 477-499.