The Finnish Orthodox Church also hopes that all worshippers will continue taking part in sacraments regardless of their cultural background and language," the Finnish Orthodox Church said in a ...

In 2015, Ambrosius, the now-retired metropolitan of Helsinki, of the Finnish Orthodox Church, invited a Lutheran bishop, Irja Askola, to an ordination service at the Uspenski Cathedral, ...

Both the Catholic Church in Finland and Finnish Orthodox Church are very active in ecumenical matters, and both are members of the Finnish Ecumenical Council.

With its roots in the medieval Novgorodian missionary work in Karelia, the Finnish Orthodox Church was a part of the Russian Orthodox Church until 1923. Today the church has three dioceses and 58,000 ...

The Finnish Orthodox Church has had to deny statements posted on the site of the President of Ukraine today claiming that the Finnish Church openly supports the push towards creating an autocephalous ...

The charges against Päivi Räsänen, a 62-year-old physician and mother of five, relate to her comments in a 2004 pamphlet, her appearance on a 2018 television program, and a Twitter post in 2019.

The Finnish Orthodox Church, independent of the Russian Orthodox Church, is funded by member taxes. Although officially one of Finland’s national churches alongside the Evangelical Lutheran Church, it ...

The MP, who was chairwoman of the Christian Democrats party from 2004 to 2015, is an active member of the Finnish Lutheran Church. But she questioned her church’s sponsorship of an LGBT pride ...