Diocese of Turku information

Diocese of Turku may refer to the following ecclesiastical jurisdictions with episcopal see in Turku (Åbo), in Finland : the former Roman Catholic Diocese...

to the Bishop of Turku Archdiocese. The Archdiocese of Turku has a unique episcopal structure as there are two bishops in the Diocese. Influenced by...

of Turku is the oldest diocese in Finland. Medieval bishops of the Catholic Church were also de facto secular leaders of the country until the end of...

June 2018. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland traces its lineage to the medieval Diocese of Turku, which coincides geographically with present-day...

staff of the Roman Curia. Secular clerics were organised into territorial units known as dioceses, each ruled by a bishop or archbishop. Each diocese was...

Turku Cathedral (Finnish: Turun tuomiokirkko, Swedish: Åbo domkyrka) is the only medieval basilica in Finland and the Mother Church of the Evangelical...

replaced by the Diocese of Karlstad. The dioceses of Uppsala, Strängnäs, Västerås, Skara, Linköping, Växjö, and the now-Finnish Diocese of Turku, are the original...

Turku (Swedish: Åbo) is Finland's oldest city, having been founded in 1229. The city has a history as part of Sweden, Russia, and finally as an important...

there. He was elected vicar of Mäntsälä in 1741. Still unmarried, at least as of 1743, he held a sinecure in the diocese of Turku in 1749. Yrjö Kotivuori...

forth in Hiekkanen's 1994 doctoral thesis "The Stone Churches of the Medieval Diocese of Turku: A Systematic Classification and Chronology." Until Hiekkanen's...

Tampere. The history of the diocese goes back over 450 years. It was founded in 1554 when King Gustav Vasa divided the diocese of Turku, extending over the...

Blessed Hemming of Turku was a Swedish Roman Catholic bishop and served as the Bishop of Turku from 1338 until 1366. He was born in Sweden though relocated...

(in Finnish) Hiekkanen, Markus (1994). The Stone Churches of the Medieval Diocese of Turku : A Systematic Classification and Chronology Helsinki. ISBN 951-9057-11-0...

of Physics and in 1762 Professor of Theology. In 1788, he succeeded Jakob Haartman as the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Turku which was then a diocese...

consisting of a single diocese. Bishop of the Faroe Islands One of two state sanctioned national churches in Finland. The Archbishop of Turku is the Primate...

Finland following the death of the Catholic King John III of Sweden in 1592 was celebrated in 1796 in Turku by the Apostolic Vicar of Sweden, the Italian-born...

ISBN 978-1-000-93441-0. Lavery, Jason (2017-11-13). Reforming Finland: The Diocese of Turku in the Age of Gustav Vasa 1523-1560. BRILL. p. 07. ISBN 978-90-04-35470-8...

the ELCF Archdiocese of Turku defrocked five ELCF pastors for breaking their ordination vows by serving in the Mission Diocese that the ELCF viewed a...

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The Diocese of Stockholm (Latin: Dioecesis Holmiensis; Swedish: Stockholms katolska stift) is an exempt Latin Catholic ecclesiastical bishopric in Sweden...

Catholic Diocese of Åbo (Turku) Only Apostolic Vicariate of Finland, the direct precursors of the current Latin see. List of Catholic dioceses (structured...

The Diocese of Copenhagen (Danish: Københavns Stift) is a diocese within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark. The Bishop of Copenhagen is currently...

1043), Young Layperson of the Diocese of Oslo; Martyr per testimonium caritatis fortis (Lier - Drammensfjord, Norway) Saint David of Munktorp (died 1082)...