Finnish Orthodox Church

Autonomous Eastern Orthodox archdiocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

Dated from 6 July 1923 CE
Also called Orthodox Church of Finland, Orthodox Church in Finland

Attributed founding

A path that branches,
meets and parts.

Schools and lineages

Overview

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At a glance

Kind: Tradition · Institution
Date: from 6 July 1923 CEOn the timeline →
Also called: Orthodox Church of Finland, Orthodox Church in Finland
Collection: Christianity
Evidence: 4 statements on this recordImported 4
Wikidata: Q752470 ↗In 38 Wikipedia languages

What this page is not

Not a list of beliefs everyone in it held, and not a map of adherents.

What this means

A tradition is not a list of beliefs held by everyone in it, and an affiliation recorded on a person is not that person’s belief in every period of their life.

Nothing here is a map of adherents. Where people practised a tradition, and how many, needs a dataset with its own methodology, and this site does not have one — see the atlas for what it does show.

Its recorded date, from 6 July 1923 CE, is an inception — a claim about a beginning, usually contested, and never an attestation window.

Attributed founding

Whom the records name as founder

What this means

An attribution, and a contested one in most traditions: it does not mean the tradition began fully formed, nor that later adherents accept the attribution.

Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution

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Meletios21 September 1871 CE – 28 July 1935 CE · Archbishop of Athens (1918–1920), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1921–1923) and Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria (1926–1935)

Connections

How Finnish Orthodox Church connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 2

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure · personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population

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