Diocese of Espoo

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Diocese of Espoo

Espoon hiippakunta
Espoon tuomiokirkko.jpg
Espoo Cathedral
Location
Country Finland
Ecclesiastical province Turku & Finland
MetropolitanArchbishop of Turku & Finland
Statistics
Parishes25
Members402 000
Information
Denomination Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Established2004
Cathedral Espoo Cathedral
Current leadership
Bishop Kaisamari Hintikka
Metropolitan Archbishop Tapio Luoma
Coat of arms of the Diocese of Espoo.svg

The Diocese of Espoo (Finnish : Espoon hiippakunta, Swedish : Esbo stift) is the newest of the nine dioceses of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. The diocese came into existence in 2004 after the Diocese of Helsinki was split in two.

The seat of the diocese is the Espoo Cathedral and its first bishop was Mikko Heikka.

After Heikka's successor Tapio Luoma was elected Archbishop in 2018, Kaisamari Hintikka was elected to succeed him in 2019.

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