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| | Churches and religion — Virtual Finland |
 | | The Olaus Petri Congregation (a Finland-based congregation of the Lutheran Church of Sweden) | | | The relationship of the Orthodox Church to the state is virtually the same as that of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church. | | | The church ministered to the destitute and infirm by maintaining houses for the poor and hospitals. |
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http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/uskoeng.html
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| | Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland - Orthodox Church of Finland: | | | D7 says that both churches understand the church as the body of Christ which is both a divine and a human reality.The church exists as a community of the faithful through the history. | | | D8 confirms that the proclamation of the gospel and the administration of the sacraments by the ordained ministers are essential for the being of the church. |
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http://www.helsinki.fi/~risaarin/lutort95.html
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| | Archbishop of Turku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This resulted in the establishment of the Catholic Church, the Christian religion and the Swedish conquest of Finland. | | | As a result of Protestant Reformation in the 16th century the Catholic Church had to give way for the Lutheran state church which was established by Gustav I of Sweden, whose principal reformer in Finland was Mikael Agricola and from 1554 also the Bishop. | | | In 1817 the Bishop was created Archbishop and became head of the Church in Finland. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_of_Finland
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| | Church of Finland - OrthodoxWiki |
| | The Church of Finland is an autonomous Orthodox church whose primate is confirmed by the Church of Constantinople. | | | Eastern Christian Churches: Orthodox Church of Finland by Ronald Roberson, a Roman Catholic priest and scholar | | | In 1923, the Finnish Church completely separated from the Russian Church, becoming an autonomous part of the Church of Constantinople. |
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http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Church_of_Finland
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| | FAST-FIN-1 Finnish Institutions Papers |
| | The matters of the whole church are dealt with and decisions made in the Assembly of congregations, which holds the highest authority in the Free Church. | | | The Lutheran Church believes that in the christening one is called by God. | | | State church is what the Lutheran Church (and also the Orthodox Church) used to be under the reigns of Sweden and Russia. |
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http://www.uta.fi/FAST/FIN/REL/jt-free.html
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| | ELCA Global Mission - Lutheran churches in Europe |
| | Representation of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in Bishkek, Kyrghystan | | | Representation of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in Almaty, Kazakstan | | | Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Slovak Republic |
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http://www.elca.org/companionsynod/europe.html
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| | Adherents.com: Largest Religious Bodies |
| | Examples include the Catholic Church, Assemblies of God, International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, Soka Gakkai, Ahmadiyya, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. | | | The Coptic Orthodox Church, for example, is the church of the Coptic Christians all over the world, but almost all of the congregations are in northeastern Africa. | | | Until the 1960s, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church was in full communion with the Coptic Church in Egypt, and together the two factions were known as one Coptic Church. |
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http://www.adherents.com/adh_rb.html
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| | Ministry: Church affairs |
| | The state is neutral with regard to religions and churches. | | | In future, he or she has to have taken the courses on religion included in the class teacher or subject teacher training, or he or she has to have corresponding qualifications in the religion to be taught. | | | A person teaching the Evangelical Lutheran or Orthodox religion no longer needs to be member of the respective Church. |
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http://www.minedu.fi/minedu/ministry/church_affairs.html
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| | Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Home |
| | The church in the centre of the village | | | The other Finnish national church, the Orthodox Church, dates back rather further, and its influence was felt in Karelia as early as in the 11th century. | | | The border formed the dividing line of two cultural spheres, and on the Western side it was the Western Church, the Roman Catholic faith, that exercised religious authority. |
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http://www.hs.fi/english/article/1101978954967
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| | The Evangelical Lutheran Church |
| | Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Beit Jala was filled to overflowing on April 4, Palm Sunday 2004. | | | The churches have mutually recognized one another's ministries and agreed upon a declaration of faith including beliefs in the Trinitarian God, justification by faith, the sacraments and the preaching of the gospel. | | | The church was overflowing with worshippers who attended the mass, held one year after they had celebrated the 25th anniversary of the church with a blessing of a whole new set of icons (pictured below). |
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http://www.holyland-lutherans.org/news.htm
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| | Archbishop Paarrna has sent his condolences to the Finn Church in New York, to the Lutheran bishops in New York and Washington, to the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and to the Council of American Churches. | | | In several churches around Finland prayer services are being arranged to remember the victims of the attacks and to pray for those who have lost their relatives and friends. | | | Some churches are keeping their doors open until midnight for people to come and pray. |
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http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/behindthenews/us18.html
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| | Finnish Lutheran Church of North Texas |
| | Finnish Lutheran Church of North Texas is a Worshiping Community authorized by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. | | | We are a loving and caring community of Christians created by God, redeemed by the Living Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to enable all people through Prayer, Word and Sacrament to serve God. | | | Pre-confirmation education for children of 8-13 years of age is meant to substitute some of the religious education that is given in the elementary schools in Finland. |
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http://www.finnishlutheran.org/engl.htm
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| | Adherents.com |
| | "The Lutheran Church is the church of the majority of Finns. | | | Membership: In 1986 the church reported 210,718 baptized members, 654 congregations... | | | The Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches brought 112,000 members and 276 churches to the merger [forming ELCA]. |
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http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_281.html
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| | Facts about the Lutheran Church :: Lutheran Church of Joensuu |
| | Since 1948 the Church of Finland has been a member of the World Council of Churches and has engaged in ecumenical dialogue with other Protestant traditions. | | | The International Congregation of the Lutheran Church of Joensuu | | | The Lutheran Church of Finland approved the ordination of women into the ministry in 1986. |
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http://cs.joensuu.fi/~amoreno/church/facts-church.php
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| | In the Lutheran church this begins a period of reflection and repentance... | | | Church Locator for Apostolic Lutheran Church of America... | | | should be sent to the webmasters of the linking church body pages... |
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http://www.cell-church.org/g/lutheran_church
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| | LWF - News - Ethical guidelines for Lutheran church investments in Finland |
| | The Finnish church says that the starting point of the church’s investment activities must be one of broad responsibility for investment ideology. | | | The working group says that the ethics of the Lutheran church do not differ from others. | | | The church must act according to its own principle values. |
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http://www.lutheranworld.org/News/LWI/EN/719.EN.html
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| | Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada - ELCIC Directory |
| | Germany ~ Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD; The EKD is composed of the Evangelical Church of the Union and 24 regional churches) | | | Hong Kong ~ The Lutheran Church - Hong Kong Synod (ILC) | | | Canada and USA ~ Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America |
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http://www.elcic.ca/direct/lutheran.html
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| | Welcome to International Evangelical Church in Finland |
| | The International Evangelical Church in Finland invites you to share with us in fellowship, worship and service in the name of our Saviour Jesus Christ. | | | We are Christians from more than 25 nations and church denominations. | | | Welcome to the bookshop of the International Evangelical Church in Finland. |
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http://www.church.fi
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| | Porvoo |
| | Please pray for the Church of Sweden in its new and more independent form, and pray that clergy and lay people may grow together in this church in the Spirit of God, to bear witness to the Gospel in a pluralistic society. | | | Please pray for the Church of Denmark, whose Bishops have not been able to endorse the Porvoo Declaration but nevertheless wish to maintain and develop their links with the churches which have signed it. | | | This booklet lists all the dioceses of each church, giving the names of the diocesan bishop and any suffragan or full-time assistant bishops. |
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http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/PORVOO/prayer2000.htm
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| | The Porvoo Churches |
| | Please pray that the universal church may be a holy nation crossing all barriers and all divisions in Christ's name. | | | Please give thanks for the life of the church and pray for the diocese and its bishop. | | | We pray that people would feel the call to different kinds of voluntary work in our parishes and that also young people would find their place in various duties and offices of the church. |
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http://www.porvoochurches.org/diary/diary0301.htm
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| | European Network of Health Care Chaplaincy Ethical Guideline in finalnd |
| | The Lutheran church employs 136 hospital chaplains, of which 121 are full time and 15 part time employees. | | | The Hospital Chaplaincy in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland also engages in international and ecumenical activities. | | | The ECPCC will organise the 10th European Conference in Sigtuna, Sweden on 19-23 August 2005 under the topic “The Secular and the Sacred — exploring a Spirituality for our time”. |
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http://www.eurochaplains.org/finland.htm
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| | The Confessing Reader » Blog Archive » The constraints of the Porvoo Common Statement |
| | Be sure to read the comments of Sven-Olav Back, a Finnish reader of this weblog, on the response of a bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland to last week’s approval of same-sex blessings by the Church of Sweden. | | | This entry was posted on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005 at 10:14 pm and is filed under Anglican Crisis, Lutheran Churches, Church of Sweden, Episcopal Church. | | | The Bishop of Borgå/Porvoo (the Swedish speaking diocese in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland), Erik Vikström, today (Nov 3rd) offers his comments on the decision of the Church of Sweden to start blessing homosexual civil unions. |
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http://reader.classicalanglican.net/?p=331
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| | Places of Worship of the International Evangelical Church in Finland |
| | The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and its parishes have graciously made their own churches and chapels available for use by the International Evangelical Church in Finland. | | | Places of Worship of the International Evangelical Church in Finland | | | The use of this facility really provides unique opportunities to reach many thousands of visitors each year with the Good News of Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.church.fi/places_worship.html
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| | Finnish Music Information Centre |
| | Commissioned by the Diocese of Helsinki, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, for the consecration of Bishop Eero Huovinen | | | Text: Hymn 571 in the Hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (in Finnish) | | | Text: Hymn 505, Hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, by Jaakko Haavio (in Finnish) |
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http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/99b7a3d37ea09d0c422566a60019adc5/2142ca7e79cd209dc22566f900423ee3!OpenDocument
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| | The President of the Republic of Estonia: The President of the Republic met the Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran ... |
| | Their meeting addressed the cooperation between Estonian and Finnish Lutheran Churches and the prospects of the Lutheran Church to have a say in society. | | | The President of the Republic acknowledged the role of church in stabilizing society and found that the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church with its participation had definitely helped our society overcome difficult periods of transition. | | | According to Archbishop Paarma, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, having due to common Finno-Ugrian heritage a particularly strong affinity for the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, had followed closely their development and worked with them together in different fields. |
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| | Sunday 18 December 2005 The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland Diocese: MikkeliWebsite: HYPERLINK "http://www.evl.fi/tkli/mikkeli" www.evl.fi/tkli/mikkeli Bishop(s): Voitto Huotari (Diocesan Bishop)Please pray for the pastoral leadership in parishes. | | | Sunday 11 December 2005 The Church of England: Province of York Diocese: SouthwellWebsite: HYPERLINK "http://www.southwell.anglican.org" www.southwell.anglican.org Bishop(s): George Cassidy (Diocesan Bishop), Alan Morgan (Bishop of Sherwood)Please pray that every parish will be a ‘mission-shaped’ church. | | | The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland Diocese: EspooWebsite: HYPERLINK "http://www.evl.fi" www.evl.fi Bishop(s): Mikko Heikka (Diocesan Bishop)Please pray for the new diocese and its ministers. |
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http://www.porvoochurches.org/diary/december_2005.doc
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| | Address to an ecumenical delegation from the Lutheran Church in Finland |
| | As we enter the Third Millennium, we are conscious of the need to commit ourselves ever more deeply to the task of restoring full and visible unity among all the disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that the saving truth of the Gospel may be preached more effectively to the people of Europe today. | | | Address to an ecumenical delegation from the Lutheran Church in Finland | | | With happy memories of my visit to your beloved country eleven years ago, I invoke upon you and the people of Finland the abundant blessings of Almighty God, "to whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever. |
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http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2001/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20010119_finnish-delegation_en.html
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| | The Anglican Church in Finland |
| | A chaplaincy of The Church of England Diocese in Europe | | | Partners of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland under the Porvoo Agreement | | | The chaplaincy supports a number of Lutheran parishes throughout Finland and Estonia in their provision of worship in English. |
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| |  | | | Rate Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland from 1-10 | | | Please rate the link Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland between one (worst) and ten (best). |
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| | Lutheran Church of Australia |
| | be a representative organ of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland to the LCA and to represent the LCA-Finnish ministry to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. | | | recruit Finnish speaking ministers for service in the LCA from Finland and elsewhere |
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