An Audience With… Mgr Varden, OCSO
Can Literature Save Lives? On the Power of the Word
His Lordship Erik Varden OCSO is the Bishop of Trondheim. Born in Norway in 1974, he was educated at Cambridge and was elected a fellow of St John’s College in 2001. He went on to become a Cistercian monk at Mount St Bernard Abbey, near Leicester. Elected abbot in 2015, he was nominated bishop of the Prelature of Trondheim in 2019. He has published many books. His blog Coram Fratribus has a wide international readership.