Kaisamari Hintikka, born 27 June 1967, in

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

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, is a Finnish

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in the

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. Hintikka assumed the role of bishop on 1 February in 2019 with her inauguration taking place on 10 February 2019 at

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. Hintikka is the third bishop of Espoo Diocese and the second woman to hold the position of a bishop in the

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, following bishop

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Biography

Kaisamari Hintikka earned her master's degree in theology in 1993. She obtained her doctoral degree in theology from the

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in 2001. Hintikka became a priest in the

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on 15 November 2009. From 2011 to 2019, before assuming the role of bishop, Kaisamari Hintikka served in

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as the head of the Department for Theology and Public Witness and as the assistant secretary-general of ecumenical matters at the

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. Additionally, she worked as a voluntary priest for the Geneva Finnish Parish from 2011 to 2018. In Finland, Hintikka held the position of specialist at the Foreign Department of the Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland from 2002 to 2011. Between 1995 and 2002 she worked as a researcher at th University of Helsinki and as a teacher from 1994 to 2002, also serving as a substitute amanuensis in 1994. Kaisamari Hintikka was awarder Commander of the

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on 6 December 2023.

References

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