DIOCESE OF BORGå

'The Diocese of Borgå' () is a Diocese for the Swedish speaking minority of Finland. It is a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Porvoo (''Borgå'' in Swedish) is also the old seat of the nowadays (Finnish-speaking) Diocese of Tampere.
Unlike the other dioceses of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, the diocese is not formed on the regional basis. All the Swedish-speaking parishes and dominantly Swedish-speaking bilingual parishes of the church belong to the diocese, regardless of their location. As a result of the Swedish-spekers geographical distribution, the parishes of the diocese are mostly on the coast, the Swedish-speaking parish of Tampere being the only inland parish. In addition, there are two ethnicity-based parishes in the diocese: The German parish of Finland and ''rikssvenska Olaus Petri församlingen'', the former Church of Sweden parish in Finland. The German parish () is the parish for the German-speaking minority of Finland, while the ''rikssvenska'' parish consists of Swedish citizens living in Finland.
The diocese has some 260.000 parishioners.

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External links

★ The page of the Evagelical Lutheran Church of Finland about the diocese

★ Official homepage