Henning Toft Bro

The Right Reverend Henning Toft Bro
Bishop of Aalborg
Church	Church of Denmark
Diocese	Aalborg
Elected	2010
Predecessor	Søren Lodberg Hvas
Orders
Ordination	1985
Consecration	9 May 2010
Personal details
Born	(1956-10-23) October 23, 1956 (age 64) Thyborøn, Denmark
Nationality	Dane
Denomination	Lutheran
Spouse	Ragna Bro
Children	3
Alma mater	Aarhus University

Henning Toft Bro is a Danish prelate currently being the Bishop of Aalborg, Denmark.

Education[]

After graduation, Toft Bro went to the sea where he worked as a fisherman. Afterwards he was a port worker at the harbor in Thyborøn. A year and a half later he went to Nørre Nissum to study at the Nørre Nissum Seminarium and HF. After he went to Aarhus University to study theology. Here he became a graduate of cand.theol in the spring of 1985.

Priesthood[]

His first position as parish priest started on 1 September 1985 when he was assigned to Hjerm Sogn parish in Struer. Twenty years later, Toft was appointed as a priest in Nykøbing Mors Sogn in 1997. He remained in this post until spring 2010. In 2004 he became Knight of Dannebrog.

During the 2010 election for a new Bishop of Aalborg, Toft Bro went through a two-stage election where his last rival was Marianne Christiansen. Toft Bro received 970 votes out of the 1,796 votes counted. On May 9, 2010, Toft Bro was given the position as the 58th Bishop of Aalborg in Aalborg Cathedral.^[1]

Music[]

Henning Toft Bro was a member of the band Tørfisk from 1983 to 1995 and has participated in many of the band's musical albums. Bent Bro is one of the founders of Tørfisk in 1981 . It was Henning Toft who wrote the group's big hit " VLTJ ". He has also published solo projects with hymns and shows, just as he has written teaching and service material.^[2]

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