Finnish Orthodox Church: List of Archbishops of Finland

Πέμπτη 7 Φεβρουαρίου 2013

List of Archbishops of Finland

The following is a list of Archbishops of Finland: Anthony (Vadkovsky) (1892 - 1898), Russian, later Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga (1898 - 1912) Nicholas (Nalimov) (1899 - 1905), Russian, later Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal ( 19xx-1914) Sergius (Stragorodsky) (1905 - 1917), Russian, later Deputy Patriarchal locum tenens (1923 - 1943) then Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (1943 - 1945) Serafim (Lukjanov) (1921 - 1923), Russian, later Metropolitan and Eparch of the Church of Russia (1879-1959) Herman (Aav) (1925 - 1960), Estonian Paavali [Paul] (Olmari) (1960 - 1987), Finnish Johannes John] (Rinne) (1987 - 2001), Finnish, later titular Metropolitan of Nicea Leo (Makkonen) (2001 - ), Finnish

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The Finnish Orthodox Church (Finnish: Suomen ortodoksinen kirkko; Swedish: Finska Ortodoxa Kyrkan) is an autonomous Orthodox archdiocese of the Patr

iarchate of Constantinople. The Church has a legal position as a national church in the country, along with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.
With its roots in the medieval Novgorodian missionary work in Karelia, the Finnish Orthodox Church was a part of the Russian Orthodox Church until 1923. Today the church has three dioceses and 58,000 members that account for 1.1 percent of the population of Finland. The parish of Helsinki has the most adherents.