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Pioneer minister and bishop of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of America in southern Minnesota. He was the leading founder of Saint Olaf College (1874) in Northfield Minnesota, and also helped found and support Luther College of Decorah, Iowa. He organized congregations and established a number of churches in southern Minnesota. From the time of his arrival in America in 1859 until a year before his death he served as pastor of Holden Parish near his home in Wanamingo Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota. The reverend and his wife were legally separated 20 Jan 1883 after a highly publicised legal battle. Despite being an active dissenter of certain tenets of church doctrine during a period of discord that led to the formation of the separate United Norwegian Lutheran Evangelical Church in 1887, B.J. Muus remained loyal to the original synod preferring to bring about reform from within. He persisted on this course even when his own congregation elected to switch, until in the end he was asked to leave the synod. In 1899 he resigned as pastor after having suffered a stroke and partial paralysis. He was brought back to Norway to live out his remaining days with his daughter Birgitte M. Klüwer and her family in Trondhiem. The Rev. B.J. Muus was laid to rest in the cemetery of Nidaros Cathedral which was built around the burial place of Olav Haraldsson, the King and patron Saint of Norway for whom Rev. Muus honored with his selection of the name St. Olaf College.
1832 - 1900 (68 år)
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