In a significant milestone for Norwegian Catholicism, the consecration of the world’s northernmost Trappist monastery church took place in Munkeby near the Trondheim Fjord. St. Mary’s Monastery is the first new Trappist foundation in half a millennium to originate directly from the order’s first, 11^th-century house, the Abbey of Cîteaux in France. Officiating at the consecration was Trondheim’s bishop, Erik Varden, also a Trappist monk.