The Catholic church in
Finland (where the state church is Lutheran) and its insular dependency has a tiny Latin hierarchy, comprising no
ecclesiastical province nor belonging to any (all sees being exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See), and has no national
episcopal conference, but the tiny Finnish episcopate partakes in the
Episcopal conference of Scandinavia.
The only proper see is Latin: a full bishopric in the national capital
Roman Catholic Diocese of Helsinki
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Helsinki is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church based in Helsinki, which comprises the whole of Finland. The diocese is divided into eight parishes.
The bishopric has been vacant since May 2019 when Bish ...
.
The Eastern Catholics are pastorally served by a transnational
apostolic exarchate from Germany. There are no pre-diocesan or other Latin exempt jurisdictions.
There formally is also an
Apostolic Nunciature to Finland, as papal embassy-level diplomatic representation, but it is vested in the Apostolic Nunciature to Sweden (in
Djursholm), as are the nunciatures to
Denmark,
Norway and
Iceland, covering the Nordic countries.
Current jurisdictions
Latin jurisdictions
*
Roman Catholic Diocese of Helsinki
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Helsinki is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church based in Helsinki, which comprises the whole of Finland. The diocese is divided into eight parishes.
The bishopric has been vacant since May 2019 when Bish ...
, which also covers
Ã…land
''Eastern Catholic jurisdiction''
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Ukrainian Catholic Church Ukrainian Catholic Church may refer to:
* Latin Church in Ukraine
* Greek Catholic Churches (Eastern Catholic communities of the Byzantine Rite, centered in Ukraine, in communion with the Church of Rome)
**Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
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Byzantine rite
The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, identifies the wide range of cultural, liturgical, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christianity, Eastern Christian Church of Constantinople.
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in
Ukrainian language)
*
, also covering
Germany (with the see in Münich),
Denmark,
Norway and
Sweden
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Defunct jurisdictions
No titular sees
Pre-Reformation Latin
*
Roman Catholic Diocese of Ã…bo
A Diocese of Ã…bo, alias of Turku (in fact all Finland) was the Catholic medieval predecessor of the Archdiocese of Turku.
History
* Established circa 1150? as Diocese of Åbo / Turku / Abœn(sis) (Latin adjective), on Finnish territory split ...
(Turku)
Post-Reformation
Only
Apostolic Vicariate of Finland, the direct precursors of the current Latin see.
See also
*
List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)
Sources and external links
GCatholic - data for all sections
{{DEFAULTSORT:Finland
Lists of Roman Catholic dioceses by country
List of Catholic dioceses in Finland
Catholic dioceses