Risto Soramies

Bishop

Risto Soramies
ChurchEvangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland
Installed4 May 2013
Orders
Ordination1985
Personal details
Born13 December 1946 (1946-12-13) (age 78)
Helsinki, Finland

Risto Matti Soramies (born 13 December 1946 in Helsinki, Finland) is the first bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland since 4 May 2013. He was ordained by Matti Väisänen, a bishop of the Mission Province of Sweden and Finland.

In December 2014 Soramies consecrated Robert Kaumba as bishop of the Lutheran Evangelical Church in Africa—Zambia Diocese.

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