Finnish, Swedish, Skolt Sami, Church Slavonic, Greek
Headquarters
Helsinki, Finland
Territory
Finland
Possessions
Finnish Orthodox Parish in Sweden
Independence
1921 (Autonomy granted from Moscow Patriarchate) 1923 (Autonomy granted from Ecumenical Patriarchate)
Recognition
Autonomy granted and recognised in 1923 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and in 1957 by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Members
57,613[1]
Official website
ort.fi
The Orthodox Church of Finland or Finnish Orthodox Church (Finnish: Suomen ortodoksinen kirkko, lit. 'Finnish Orthodox Church';[2] Swedish: Ortodoxa kyrkan i Finland, lit. 'Orthodox Church in Finland'[3]) is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox archdiocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The church has a legal position as a national church in the country, along with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.[4]
With its roots in the medieval Novgorodian missionary work in Karelia, the Orthodox Church of Finland was a part of the Russian Orthodox Church until 1923. Today the church has three dioceses and 54,895 members in Finland, accounting for almost one percent of the native population of Finland. The parish of Helsinki has the most adherents. There are also 2,700 members living abroad.[5]
^"Church membership in 2021" (in Finnish).
^"Etusivu | Suomen ortodoksinen kirkko". ort.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 4 January 2020.
^"Ortodoxa kyrkan i Finland | Ortodoxa kyrkan i Finland". ort.fi (in Swedish). Retrieved 4 January 2020.
^Official site of the Finnish Orthodox Church Archived 6 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
^"Church membership in 2021" (in Finnish).
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