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Diocese of Lapua

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Diocese of Lapua Lapuan hiippakunta
Coat of arms
Location
Country	Finland
Ecclesiastical province	Turku & Finland
Metropolitan	Archbishop of Turku & Finland
Statistics
Parishes	49
Members	406000
Information
Denomination	Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Established	1956
Cathedral	Lapua Cathedral
Current leadership
Bishop	Matti Salomäki
Metropolitan Archbishop	Tapio Luoma
Website
www.lapuanhiippakunta.fi

The Diocese of Lapua (Finnish: Lapuan hiippakunta, Swedish: Lappo stift) is one of nine dioceses within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. The diocese was founded in 1956.

The diocese attained national attention in September 2015, when Finnish media reported that the diocese had purchased a luxury penthouse apartment for the bishop's official residence. Due to the controversy, hundreds of Finns resigned from the church during the days following the media exposure.^[1]

Bishops of Lapua

• Eero Lehtinen 1956–1974
• Yrjö Sariola 1974–1995
• Jorma Laulaja 1995–2004
• Simo Peura 2004–2022
• Matti Salomäki 2022–

See also

• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland

References

External links

• Media related to Diocese of Lapua at Wikimedia Commons
• Diocese of Lapua

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