Catholic bishops from Scandinavia have reported a dramatic upsurge of
vocations, with 60 training to be priests out of a total Catholic
population of just 250,000.The news was included in a statement from the Iceland plenary of the eight-member Scandinavian Bishops' Conference, hosted by Bishop Peter Burcher of Reykjavik, which said it had established a conference of rectors to co-ordinate the work of Catholic seminaries now operating in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
In their statement, the bishops said they had debated evangelisation and ecumenical relations in the predominantly Lutheran region, and been received by President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson of Iceland, who had "shown much interest" in the work of the Catholic Church.