Odd Bondevik ( born June 20, 1941 in Sauda ) was the bishop of Møre in the Church of Norway from 17 November 1991 until retirement in 2008.

Bondevik received thousands of supportive letters, and said that the experience had been positive overall, both for himself and because it made mental illness more publicly acceptable.

On the Middle East conflict, Høybråten said that his view was the same as that of Kjell Magne Bondevik.

Bondevik was born in Molde, Norway.

Representing the Christian Democratic Party, Bondevik was a member of the Storting ( Parliament ) from 1973 to 2005.

Bondevik was also Minister of Foreign Affairs in Jan P. Syse's government of 1989 – 1990, Minister of Church and Education in Kåre Willoch's government 1983 – 1986, also Prime Minister Willoch's deputy 1985 – 1986, and state secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister during Lars Korvald's government 1972 – 1973.

While serving his first term as Prime Minister, Bondevik attracted international attention in August 1998 when he admitted that he was suffering from depressive episode, becoming the highest ranking world leader to admit to suffering from a mental illness while in office.

However, Bondevik was defeated in the 2005 parliamentary election, with 81 seats obtained for Bondevik's coalition and its supporters to the opposition Red-Green Coalition's 88.

Bondevik was awarded the Grand Cross of St. Olav in 2004, the first sitting Norwegian Prime Minister to receive the Order of St. Olav in 80 years.

In 2009, Bondevik was awarded an honorary degree from the University of San Francisco.

The Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights was founded by Kjell Magne Bondevik in January 2006.

The stadium was inaugurated on 18 April 1998, when the stadium was officially opened by Prime Minister and Molde-fan Kjell Magne Bondevik.

Following a motion of confidence against the First Bondevik Cabinet, Stoltenberg was appointed Prime Minister on 3 March 2000, despite being deputy leader of the party, and not the party leader.

Labour only received 35. 0 %; true to his promise, Jagland resigned, and power was transferred to the first cabinet of Kjell Magne Bondevik.

Again, no party won a majority, so the power was given to the first cabinet of Kjell Magne Bondevik, with Jagland resigning on 29 September 1997.

He was succeeded by the second cabinet of Bondevik, following the 2001 election.

It was also Korvald who introduced Kjell Magne Bondevik into the national scene by appointing him political secretary to the prime minister's office.

From 2001 to 2005, when the second cabinet Bondevik held office, Krohn Devold was Minister of Defence.

Their leader from 1983 to 1995, Kjell Magne Bondevik, was one of the most prominent political figures in modern Norway, serving as Prime Minister from 1997 to 2000 and 2001 to 2005.

Under the old leadership of Bondevik and Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, the party was to some extent radicalized and moved towards the left.

From 2001 to 2005, when the second cabinet Bondevik held office, Petersen was Minister of Foreign Affairs.

In the first cabinet of Bondevik, from October 1997 to March 2000, Sponheim was Minister of Trade and Industry.

In the second Bondevik cabinet, from October 2001 to October 2005, he was Minister of Agriculture and Food.

From 2001 to 2005, when the second cabinet Bondevik held office, Foss was Minister of Finance.

He was again Minister of Justice in the second government of Kjell Magne Bondevik from 2001 to 2005.

A three-party minority coalition of the Centre, Christian Democratic, and Liberal parties, headed by Christian Democrat Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, moved into office in October 1997.

His appointment as Bishop of Oslo by the second cabinet Bondevik was criticized by non-Christians and liberal Christians because he is loyal to the decision of the highest body of the Church of Norway not to allow practicing homosexuals as priests.

In 2001, Bondevik once again became Prime Minister in 2001, this time as head of a minority coalition of the Conservatives, Christian Democrats and Liberals.

In 2011, Dag Herbjørnsrud wrote in an editorial that " Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik wasn't sending soldiers into war — he was merely supplying manpower to a " peacekeeping mission ".

In October 2008 the Russian bank Gazprombank, the banking arm of Gazprom, acquired 100 percent of Armenian bank Areximbank after previously buying 80 percent of said bank in November 2007 and 94. 15 percent in July of the same year.

In interviews made before his 2009 death, Woolfson said he planned to release one track from the " Sicilian " album, which in 2008 appeared as a bonus track on a CD re-issue of the Eve album.

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" He had the touch ," Frazetta said of Capp in 2008.

At a forum at the university during the 2008 presidential election campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama said that the university should consider reinstating ROTC on campus.

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ABC News reported in March 2008 that Singer said he is not on the payroll of the energy industry, but he acknowledged that SEPP had received one unsolicited charitable donation of $ 10, 000 from ExxonMobil, and that it was one percent of all donations received.

This greatly improves the viability of the Galileo project: " The EU's executive had previously said that if agreement was not reached by January 2008, the long-troubled project would essentially be dead.

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Club said of the 2008 competition, " Once again, the IF Competition delivers some of the best writing in games.

John Carmack said in an interview at QuakeCon 2007 that there will be a Doom 4, it has been in development since May 7, 2008.

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In 2008, in an interview on Melbourne radio, Lewis said he had signed composer Marvin Hamlisch and dramatist Rupert Holmes to write the show.

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" That was three different songs ... yet they were brought together to sound like one, which was fantastic ," lead guitarist John Echols said of " You Set The Scene " in the liner notes by Andrew Sandoval for the " Collector's Edition " of " Forever Changes " that was released by Rhino Records in 2008.

In August 2008 Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi signed an agreement to pay Libya $ 5 billion over 25 years – this was a " complete and moral acknowledgement of the damage inflicted on Libya by Italy during the colonial era ", the Italian prime minister said.

On August 6, 2008, Mauritania's presidential spokesman Abdoulaye Mamadouba said President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf and the interior minister, were arrested by renegade Senior Mauritanian army officers, unknown troops and a group of generals, and were held under house arrest at the presidential palace in Nouakchott.

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" Studio Ghibli said the production time would be about 20 months, with release slated for Summer 2008.

At a press conference in November 2008, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos Lopez said, " Certainly, we think that the decision recognize independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia was fair and appropriate.