Russian Orthodox Church in Finland
| Russian Orthodox Church in Finland Ру́сская правосла́вная це́рковь в Финля́ндии | |
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Interior of the St. Nikolaos Church, 1939. | |
| Classification | Eastern Orthodox |
| Primate | Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' Kirill |
| Language | Church Slavonic (worship), Finnish, Russian, Swedish |
| Liturgy | Byzantine Rite |
| Headquarters | Patriarchal: Moscow, Russia Jurisdictional: Helsinki, Finland |
| Territory | Finland |
| Founder | Fr. Grigory Svetlovsky Fr. Nikolai Shchukin |
| Independence | 1926 |
| Reunion | 1945 |
| Recognition | Semi-autonomous |
| Separated from | Orthodox Church of Finland |
| Parishes | 2 |
| Members | 4,200 |
| Places of worship | 5 |
| Other names | Patriarchal Parishes in Finland (Патриа́ршие прихо́ды в Финля́ндии) |
| Official website | www www |
The Russian Orthodox Church in Finland (Finnish: Venäjän ortodoksinen kirkko Suomessa, Russian: Ру́сская правосла́вная це́рковь в Финля́ндии) is a semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church formed in 1926. An official headquarters of the Moscow Patriarchate, led by Archpriest Viktor Lioutik, was opened in Helsinki in 1999.
Founded in 1926 by Russian émigrés, the Russian Orthodox Church in Finland is organized into two parishes, the St. Nikolaos Orthodox Parish in Helsinki, and the Orthodox Pokrova congregation. They maintain a total of five churches, with three located in Helsinki, one in Pori, and one in Sastamala.
The total number of registered members in 2022 was 4,200, with the largest community being the St. Nikolaos Orthodox Parish with more than 3,700 members. The Spaso-Preobrazenskaja community in Tampere is under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and is therefore administratively separate.
The Russian Orthodox Church in Finland does not have its own separate bishop and is formally subject directly to Patriarch Kirill. However, in practice, the church's parishes remain self-governing, with no direct intervention from Kirill.