 During Porsanger’s stay in Copenhagen he was appointed a resident chaplain at the Cathedral in Trondheim.This appointment was not well received locally, and the church made efforts to give him another position, and in 1771 he was appointed priest to Vadsø.Porsanger’s mother tongue was Sami and he translated several parts of the Bible into the Sami language, most of which he burned after having been forced to give up his residency in Trondheim.