Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland information
One of the national churches of Finland
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko (Finnish) Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland (Swedish)
Turku Cathedral, the primatial and mother church of Finland
Type
National church
Classification
Protestant
Orientation
Lutheran
Scripture
Bible
Polity
Episcopal
Primate
Tapio Luoma
Associations
Conference of European Churches Lutheran World Federation Porvoo Communion World Council of Churches
Region
Finland
Founder
Alexander I of Russia
Origin
29 March 1809 (Diet of Porvoo)
Separated from
Church of Sweden
Members
3,625,007 (2022)[1]
Official website
evl.fi/english
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (Finnish: Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko; Swedish: Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland) is a national church of Finland. It is part of the Lutheran branch of Christianity. The church has a legal position as a national church in the country, along with the Orthodox Church of Finland.[2]
Coat of arms of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Adopted
1990
The church is a member of the World Council of Churches and the Conference of European Churches. It is also a member of the Porvoo Communion and is actively involved in ecumenical relations.
With 3.6 million members as of 2022[update], the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland is one of the largest Lutheran churches in the world. It is Finland's largest religious body; at the end of 2022, 65.2% of Finns were members of the church.[1] The current head of the Church is Tapio Luoma, Archbishop of Turku, who succeeded Kari Mäkinen on 3 June 2018.
^ abBelonging to a religious community by age and sex, 1990-2022 Archived 31 May 2023 at the Wayback Machine Statistics Finland
^Official site of the Finnish Orthodox Church Archived 6 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
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