Northern Lights Cathedral Church as the main church for the deanery. The "Northern Lights" are the Aurora Borealis associated with the Arctic night sky. At the opening service, bishop Per Oskar Kjølaas admitted that the word was contentious since it technically meant not a parish church but a cathedral (for which the more common Norwegian word is ). He defended the name by the informal precedents of the and , and argued that a bishop is at home in all churches of the diocese. Northern Lights Cathedral The Northern Lights Cathedral - Alta Church () is a parish church of the Church of
Nelvana of the Northern Lights Fleur de Lys. A Kickstarter campaign to republish "Nelvana of the Northern Lights" for the first time since the original publication was launched in October 2013 by Hope Nicholson. It was fully funded within five days of being launched. The character was created, written and illustrated by Adrian Dingle, who was inspired by tales brought back from the Arctic by Group of Seven painter Franz Johnston. Franz Johnston had met a young women, either Cecile Nelvana or Connie Nelvana in his stay in Coppermine, NWT (now Kugluktuk, Nunavut), and was taken by this 'arctic Madonna' to create a superheroine. Nelvana's