• The Archdiocese of Turku (Finnish: Turun arkkihiippakunta, Swedish: Åbo ärkestift), historically known as Archdiocese of Åbo, is the seat of the Archbishop...
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    Lutheran Church of Finland. It is the central church of the Lutheran Archdiocese of Turku and the seat of the Lutheran Archbishop of Finland, Tapio Luoma...
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  • The Archdiocese of Turku is the oldest diocese in Finland. Medieval bishops of the Catholic Church were also de facto secular leaders of the country until...
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  • Catholic Diocese of Turku (Åbo) Bishopric of Turku, originally Roman Catholic, later Lutheran the present Lutheran Archdiocese of Turku This disambiguation...
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    Kaarlo Kalliala (category Lutheran archbishops and bishops of Turku)
    theologian and the Bishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Turku. Kalliala has studied theology at the University of Helsinki and received a master's degree...
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    Lutheran Church of Finland is divided into nine dioceses. Each diocese is headed by a bishop and a cathedral chapter. The Archdiocese of Turku is headed by...
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    Jukka Paarma (category Lutheran archbishops and bishops of Turku)
    prelate who served as the Archbishop of Turku and Finland and the spiritual head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. He retired as archbishop...
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    including Danzig. The archdiocese of Turku had a vast administrative area, stretching east to Lake Ladoga and north to the wilds of Lapland. Until the mid-16th...
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  • Mari Leppänen (category Lutheran archbishops and bishops of Turku)
    theologian and the Bishop to the Archdiocese of Turku, together with the Archbishop Tapio Luoma, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Leppänen studied...
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    p. 95. See also History of the Cathedral of Turku Archived 22 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine by the Archdiocese of Turku. Heikkilä 2005, pp. 100,...
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    Finland under Swedish rule (category Medieval history of Sweden)
    brothers). The parishes of the Catholic church in the area of Finland belonged to the Archdiocese of Turku. The bishop of Turku, the head of the diocese, had...
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    John Vikström (category Lutheran archbishops and bishops of Turku)
    (born 1 October 1931) is a Finnish priest. He served as the Archbishop of Turku and Finland from 1982 to 1998. John Edvin Vikström was born to parents...
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  • The Diocese of Åbo was the medieval, pre-Reformation Catholic predecessor of the later Archdiocese of Turku, a Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland jurisdiction...
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    Vantaa (redirect from History of Vantaa)
    butter for the bishop from every citizen of age 7 years or older. Since the 14th century, the road between Turku and Vyborg, King's Road, has run through...
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    Jakob Gadolin (category Lutheran archbishops and bishops of Turku)
    a Professor of Physics and in 1762 Professor of Theology. In 1788, he succeeded Jakob Haartman as the Bishop of the Archdiocese of Turku which was then...
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    ruins. It served as the main church of the Vihti parish, with Bridget of Sweden as its patron saint. The ruins of St. Bridget's Church are located by...
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    Ilkka Kantola (category Members of the Parliament of Finland (2007–2011))
    University of Helsinki in 1994. He served as General Secretary of the Archdiocese of Turku from 1994 to 1998 and then as Bishop of the Archdiocese. In 2005...
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    Finland. It was completed in 1937 by the design of the architect Erkki Huttunen. Along with the churches of Kannonkoski, Rajamäki and Varkaus and the Lakeuden...
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    Kantola, Member of Parliament and former Bishop of the Archdiocese of Turku. Tuula Haatainen, former Minister of Education, former Minister of Social Affairs...
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  • of Folquinus Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine by the Archdiocese of Turku. In Finnish. "Letter by Pope Alexander III to the Archbishop of Uppsala"...
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    lack of roads in the area; therefore the populace petitioned the Archdiocese of Turku cathedral chapter for a permission to build their own local chapel...
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    district of Turku. Most decrees, certificates, and letters related to the early history of Ulvila and Liikistö were destroyed in the Pori fire of 1698 but...
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    The Church of Loimaa Proper (Finnish: Kanta-Loimaan kirkko) is a church located in the municipality of Loimaa, Finland. It serves as the main church for...
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  • Pohjola on 5 August 2014. On 8 April 2015, the Cathedral Chapter of the ELCF Archdiocese of Turku defrocked five ELCF pastors for breaking their ordination vows...
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    Archbishop of Uppsala for 560 years. Brief biography of Bero Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine by the Archdiocese of Turku. In Finnish...
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    by an unknown writer. Part of the Palmsköld collection. In Latin. Brief biography of Rodulff by the Archdiocese of Turku. In Finnish. "Letter by Pope...
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  • forth in Hiekkanen's 1994 doctoral thesis "The Stone Churches of the Medieval Diocese of Turku: A Systematic Classification and Chronology." Until Hiekkanen's...
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    Aura River (Finland) (category Turku)
    ultimately the city of Turku before discharging into the Archipelago Sea. The waters of the Aura river are brown. The total length of the river is about...
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    Arvid Kurck (category Roman Catholic bishops of Turku)
    and was drowned in a shipwreck near the town of Öregrund. List of bishops of Turku Archdiocese of Turku Archived 2016-11-15 at the Wayback Machine (in...
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    Kari Mäkinen (category Lutheran archbishops and bishops of Turku)
    assistant in the Archdiocese of Turku. He has also had several positions of trust in multiple organisations. On the second ballot of 2010, he was voted...
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