Back الكنيسة الإنجيلية اللوثرية الفنلندية Arabic الكنيسه الانجيليه اللوثريه الفنلنديه ARZ Евангелічна-лютэранская царква Фінляндыі Byelorussian Finská církev Czech Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Finnlands German Ευαγγελική Λουθηρανική Εκκλησία της Φινλανδίας Greek Evangelia-Luterana Eklezio de Finnlando Esperanto Iglesia evangélica luterana de Finlandia Spanish Soome Evangeelne Luterlik Kirik Estonian کلیسای انجیلی لوتری فنلاند Persian
 Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland | |
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| Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko (Finnish) Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland (Swedish) | |
 Turku Cathedral, the primatial and mother church of Finland | |
| Type | National church |
| Classification | Christian |
| Orientation | Protestant |
| Scripture | Christian Bible |
| Theology | Lutheran |
| 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 |
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 | |
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| 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.
- ^ a b Belonging 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.