Risto Matti Soramies (born 13 December 1946 in

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) is the first bishop of the

Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland The Mission Diocese, officially the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland, ( fi, Suomen evankelisluterilainen lähetyshiippakunta, sv, Evangelisk-lutherska missionsstiftet i Finland) is an independent confessional Lutheran "ecclesial s ...

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.Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland.
Retrieved: June 24, 2015.

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