Matti Kalevi Väisänen (born 24 February 1934,

Juva Juva (, also ) is a municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southern Savonia regions of Finland, region some North-East of Helsinki. It was founded on 19 January 1442, and is the oldest parish/municipality in Fi ...

) is a former priest of

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and the bishop of independent Luther Foundation ordained by Swedish-based

Missionsprovinsen The Mission Province ( ) is a Swedish independent ecclesiastical province founded by members of the Church of Sweden who are opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate. The province, which aligns with Confessional Luthe ...

, an ecclesiastical province that opposes ordination of women. He graduated doctor of theology from

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki (, ; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Alexander ...

in 2007. In 2013 Väisänen ordained Risto Soramies as the first bishop of the

Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland The Mission Diocese, officially the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland, (, ) is an independent Confessional Lutheranism, confessional Lutheran "ecclesial structure" in Finland. The Mission Diocese considers itself to be "part of ‘t ...

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Luther Foundation bishop and ministers could be removed from established churchLutheran Church removes renegade bishop

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