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	OCA - Orthodox Church in America News
		Later the same day, the Archbishop and the Valaam Icon were greeted at the entrance to Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk Monastery, South Canaan, PA, by His Grace, Bishop Tikhon of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania; clergy and members of the monastic brotherhood; and numerous faithful.
		Accompanying Archbishop Leo are Archimandrite Sergey of New Valaam Monastery, Mother Marina of Finland's Lintula Monastery, Protodeacon Kimmo Kallinen, and Mrs.
		The Orthodox Church of Finland is an autonomous Church within the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
	www.oca.org /News.asp?ID=818&SID=19 (505 words)

	Archdiocese of Turku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Archdiocese of Turku, or the Archdiocese of Åbo is the seat of the Archbishop of Turku.
		Turku, or Åbo, became the principal city in Finland and residence of a Bishopric.
		In 1817 the Bishop was created Archbishop and became head of the Church in Finland, which thereupon became the state church of the grand duchy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Archbishop_of_Finland (323 words)

	Turku
		Turku, or Åbo in Swedish, is a city in Finland, founded in 1229.
		It belongs to the historical province of Finland Proper and the current administrative province of Western Finland.
		Until 1812, Turku was the capital of Finland - then part of the kingdom of Sweden.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/tu/Turku.html (233 words)

	Page About Masonry, News&Notes:
		Finland was not fully spared, but as new governments in many countries brought about total abolition of Masonry, the sensible and sound attitude of the Finnish government prevented any illegal action being taken and permitted continuation of Masonic work.
		Finland was dragged into the maelstrom of the 2nd World War, but succeeded, thanks to a heroic defence, to detach itself from it for a short time, and Masonic work could be taken up again in the Autumn of 1940, even thought it was to last for only a short time.
		When the Grand Lodge of Finland was founded with the support of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York in the early twenties, one of its first tasks was to acquire the recognition of the United Grand Lodge of England and thus gain an official status as a recognized regular Grand Lodge.
	web.mit.edu /dryfoo/Masonry/Reports/finl.html (2997 words)

	Church of Finland - OrthodoxWiki
		The Church of Finland is an autonomous Orthodox church whose primate is confirmed by the Church of Constantinople.
		It is the second official state church of Finland, beside the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.
		Shortly after Finland declared independence from Russia in 1917, the Finnish Orthodox Church declared its autonomy from the Church of Russia.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Church_of_Finland (511 words)

	Finnish Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beside the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland it is one of the two official national churches in Finland.
		Eastern Orthodox Christianity started gaining a more recognised status in Finland during Russian rule in the 19th century and in Helsinki, Viipuri and the Karelian Isthmus, Orthodoxy was associated with the country's ruling elite.
		A separate Finnish episcopate with a leading archbishop was established in 1896 under the Russian Orthodox Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnish_Orthodox_Church (560 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Finland
		A department or province of the Russian Empire; bounded on the north by Norway, on the west by Sweden and the Gulf of Bothnia, on the south by the Gulf of Finland.
		Finland abounds in lakes and forests, buit the proportion of arable soil is small.
		When in 1617 Karelia (East Finland) fell to Sweden, an effort was made to win the native population, which belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church, for the "pure Gospel".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06076d.htm (825 words)

	Abercius, Archbishop And Hieromartyr Of Zhitomir
		Archbishop Abercius, in the world Polycarp Petrovich Kedrov, was born on March 2, 1879 in the town of Yaransk, Vyatka province, in the family of the priest Fr.
		The archbishop was of medium height with quite a large head, a high forehead and wavy fair hair.
		Together with his brother, Archbishop Pachomius, he wrote an epistle in which he said: "There can be no union between Church and State, when it has to do with our Orthodox Church and the Soviet Union, by reason of the fundamental difference in the basic views of the two sides.
	www.orthodox.net /russiannm/abercius-archbishop-and-hieromartyr-of-zhitomir.html (908 words)

	Turku, Finland
		Turku is the fifth largest city in Finland, with a population of about 175,000, and is located in the south-west of the country at the mouth of the Aura river.
		The population of the city was around six thousand, and in the 1620s it became the residence of the Governor-General of Finland, thus affirming its status as the capital of Finland.
		After Sweden ceded Finland to Imperial Russia in the Treaty of Hamina in 1809, thus ending the Finnish War, the functions of capital started to be moved away from Turku and into Helsinki, as Emperor Alexander I felt that Turku was too far away from Russia to efficiently serve as capital of the Grand Duchy.
	www.creekin.net /c3554-n66-turku-finland.html (1696 words)

	Untitled
		Archbishop John, head of the Orthodox Church in Finland, and Bishop Ambrosius of the Finnish Orthodox diocese of Joensuu said that they were planning to match neither the Moscow patriarchate's harsh rhetoric--which has included threats of schism--nor its punitive acts--such as excommunication of laymen and suspension of priests who support their opponents.
		Archbishop John was formally installed as the "Locum Tenens" or acting head of the pro-Constantinople parishes in a February 24 eremony at Tallinn's Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration.
		Archbishop John said that the Moscow patriarchate would prefer not to face the reality that the prospects for Orthodox Christian evangelization and church growth among ethnic Estonians are better if the Orthodox Church is not seen in Estonia as a Russian institution.
	www.catholic.net /RCC/Periodicals/Igpress/CWR/CWR0496/Estonia.html (3207 words)

	Johan Ludvig Runeberg - LoveToKnow 1911
		JOHAN LUDVIG RUNEBERG (1804-1877), Swedish poet, son of a sea-captain, was born at Jakobstad, in Finland, on the 5th of February 1804.
		He was brought up by an uncle at Uleandborg, and entered the university of Abo in the autumn term of 1822.
		From 1847 to 1850 the poet was rector of Bore, College, a post which he resigned to take the only journey out of Finland which he ever accomplished, a visit to Sweden in 1851.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Johan_Ludvig_Runeberg (742 words)

	Finland for Thought » Archbishop opposes assisted conception for single women & lesbians \| Politics, current ...
		Archbishop Jukka Paarma, head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, in which around 84 per cent of the population belong to, said Monday that he was opposed to making assisted conception available for single parents and lesbian couples.
		Plans are afoot in Russia to expand the border zones between that country and Finland.
		"Finland, the EU member state holding the bloc's rotating presidency, said Wednesday it would hold an extraordinary EU foreign ministers' meeting on the Middle East crisis in August.
	www.finlandforthought.net /index.php?p=554 (2858 words)

	The Orthodox Church in Finland
		The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the Orthodox Church in Finland: its history, its religious life, and its present position in Finland.
		The bishop of the diocese of Karelia (eastern Finland) is also the archbishop of Finland (The Finnish Orthodox Church Website).
		The Orthodox Church Museum in Kuopio, eastern Finland, was established in 1957.
	www.uta.fi /~as72342/ortinst.html (1831 words)

	Address to Rev. Jukka Paarma, Archbishop of Turku and Finland
		It is a special joy for me to welcome you to the Vatican so soon after your appointment as Archbishop of Turku and Finland.
		The visit I made in 1989 to the Cathedral of Turku and to the home of your predecessor, Archbishop John Vikström, is still vividly etched in my mind.
		That was an event that greatly strengthened the relations between the Lutheran Church of Finland and the Catholic Church.
	www.vatican.va /holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1999/january/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19990118_luterano_en.html (197 words)

	ACNS Digest - Archives
		Archbishop Ndungane said that the Christian church worldwide is being called upon to play an increasing role in nation-building and economic and social development.
		Both Archbishop Ndungane and Archbishop Paarma expressed the intention for their churches to jointly address societal problems while also being a model for creating unity and solidarity between denominations in the Christian family.
		Archbishop Ndungane says the African Monitor came after a realisation to maintain the development agenda set in 2005 through the "Year of Africa", prioritised by the Commission for Africa Report, the G8 Gleneagles Summit, and with the UN Special Summit and WTO Doha Round having a focus on development.
	www.anglicancommunion.org /acns/digest/index.cfm?years=2006&months=4&article=595&pos= (6235 words)

	Archbishop LEO of Finland in Balamand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Balamand, Friday, November 26, 2004 - Since it is the tradition in the Orthodox Church that the newly elected primate visits the other Orthodox churches, Archbishop LEO of Karelia and All Finland, elected in 2001, gave an official visit to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch.
		The Orthodox Church of Finland is an autonomous Church under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
		Archbishop Leo of Finland arrives to Balamand Monastery gate, and Bishop John Yazigi, Priests, and students of the Institute of Theology welcome him
	www.balamand.edu.lb /theology/NEWS/finland04/finland04.htm (237 words)

	Finland
		The Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church was satisfied with the results.
		Lutheran Archbishop Jukka Paarma, who occasionally expresses his views on certain political/moral issues that might also be debated in Parliament, commented on the fertility question in May 2005 at a Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Turku.
		The Archbishop stressed that the focus should always be on the child's rights when considering in-vitro fertilization treatment.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51551.htm (2217 words)

	Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Ministries - Community
		In it the primate of the Orthodox Church of Finland reviewed the various submissions made by four regional autocephalous Churches to the Preparatory Commission for the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church which has been in the planning stage for some forty years.
		In his conclusions Archbishop Paul strongly urged the Patriarchate of Constantinople to relinquish the theory of the supremacy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate over the whole diaspora and to reject any talk of 'barbarian areas' as an anachronism.
		Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome
	www.stlukeorthodox.com /html/currentissues/diaspora.cfm (3128 words)

	All Bishops of Finland [Catholic-Hierarchy]
		Archbishop Piero Biggio, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Denmark
		Archbishop Giovanni Ceirano †, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Denmark
		Archbishop Henri Lemaître †, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Netherlands
	www.catholic-hierarchy.org /country/bfi.html (96 words)

	News
		At the Greek Consulate, the Head of the autonomous Orthodox Church of Finland was received by the Consul General of Greece Mrs Constantina Athanasiadou and the staff of the consulate.
		The visiting Archbishop of Finland was told about and admired the buildings, the work being done and the expanse of activities of the powerful Hellenic Community of Cairo which then hosted a dinner in their honour.
		His Eminence the Archbishop of Finland had the opportunity to verify the maintenance works of the holy churches and the warm “spiritual concern under the guidance of His Beatitude, the Hierarchs and the clergy of the Patriarchate”, as he characteristically said.
	www.greekorthodox-alexandria.org /News/2004/april.htm (4363 words)

	The Church of England and the Churches of Norway, Denmark and Iceland
		The Conference requests the Archbishop of Canterbury to appoint a committee to confer with a similar committee or committees representing the Churches of Norway, Denmark, and Iceland, for the purpose of considering the relations of these Churches with the Anglican Communion.
		The Anglican delegation recommends the admission of communicants of the Church of Finland to Communion in the Church of England, and takes note of the fact that the Church of Finland is already accustomed to admit to Communion at its altars communicants not belonging to the Lutheran confession.
		That this House welcomes the approaches made by the Archbishop of Latvia and the Bishop of Estonia to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and expresses the hope that in due course complete intercommunion, based on a common faith and a common episcopal ministry, may be achieved.
	anglicanhistory.org /lutherania/scand1951.html (10064 words)

	NewsRoom Finland
		The Archbishop of Finland, Jukka Paarma, said on Wednesday that the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland did not apply pressure on Ilkka Kantola, the Bishop of Turku, to resign after he confessed to having an affair with a woman pastor.
		Archbishop Paarma said the matter had come as news to him, Bishop Kantola's diocese as well as to most of church leadership.
		Bishop Kantola's request is the first of its kind in the history of independent Finland, Dean Aila Lauha of the University of Helsinki Department of Church History told the Finnish News Agency (STT) on Tuesday.
	virtual.finland.fi /stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=7350&group=General (338 words)

	Quo Vadis Constantinople Patriarchate?
		In fact, the status of autonomy was granted as a concession to the heterodox governments of Finland and Poland, with the former one having attempted, since the fourteenth century, to wrench the Little Russian and White Russian areas from under control of the Russian Orthodox Church.
		This defense was, and is, the main stumbling block to the gradual catholicization of Russian communities in Poland and lutheranization of the Orthodox in Finland.
		Aava) strolled the streets of Finland in secular clothes, clean-shaven and hair cut short, while the most worthy of bishops, Seraphim, crudely betrayed by his false brother, languished in exile for the remainder of his life in a tiny hut of a monastery on a stormy isle on Lake Lagoda.
	www.orthodoxinfo.com /ecumenism/quovadis.aspx (4051 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In Finland archbishop John Vikström retires December 1998 Archbishop John Vikström has given a notice that he will leave his post as Archbishop of Archdiocese of Turku and Archbishop of Finland.
		Archbishop Vikström decided to leave his post after the Church Synod of the evangelical lutheran church of Finland founded a new office for a bishop within the Archdiocese of Turku.
		He could stay in office until he is 70 years old.
	www.evl.fi /english/news/archbis.txt (181 words)

	Finland Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		A lively, insightful study of the work of Tom of Finland and its impact upon the emerging gay culture.
		There was nothing ambiguous about Tom of Finland's interest in his objects of desire: "lf I don't have an erection when...
		An unpretentious little book by the former head of the Orthodox Church of Finland, written "to describe Orthodoxy from the inside to those outside." Useful also for the Orthodox themselves, it deals with the most basic elements of the Orthodox faith.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Finland (567 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia: Archbishop Janis Vanags on a visit to Finland
		As part of the visit, he met with the Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, Jukka Paarma, the Bishop of Helsinki, Eero Huovinen, and also visited the city of Loppi and the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki.
		On 21 October, at the Latvian Embassy in Helsinki, the Latvian Ambassador to Finland, Einars Semanis, hosted an official reception on the occasion of the archbishop's visit.
		Relations between Finland and Latvia are characterized by profound and comprehensive co-operation at the community level in society.
	www.am.gov.lv /en/news/press-releases/2006/october/23-1 (200 words)

	Distinctive Charter Yachts Destinations
		Flying into Finland, I was quite astounded at the number of islands, scattered like emeralds across the blue of the ocean.
		Finland holds the distinction of never being occupied by foreign forces, unlike all other states on the European continent that were involved in the Second World War.
		Founded at the beginning of the 13th century, Turku is Finland’s oldest and fifth largest city, and, as you remember, was the original capital.
	www.distinctyachts.com /finland.htm (1996 words)

	wfn.org \| Archbishop's election in Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Most votes to Jukka Paarma HELSINKI, Finland/GENEVA, 28 September 1998 (lwi) - In the September 16 election of nominees for the Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (ELCF), the dean of the Cathedral of Turku, Doctor of Theology Jukka Paarma, 55, received the most votes.
		The president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, will appoint one of the nominees later this autumn as both the Archbishop of Finland and the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Turku.
		The Archdiocese of Turku has had both an archbishop and a bishop since May of this year, following an ELCF Synod decision that the work load of the archbishop was too great for one person, owing to heavy churchwide responsibilities incumbent upon the Archbishop of Finland.
	www.wfn.org /1998/10/msg00016.html (225 words)

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