ORTHODOX CHURCH MUSIC IN FINLAND
The Orthodox Church of Finland, with its 56,000 members (only one percent of the population), occupies a unique position, sharing State Church status with the Lutheran Church, which embraces ninty percent of the population. The Finnish archdiocese belongs to the ancient worldwide Eastern Orthodox Church of approximately 200,000,000 people, which is divided into about fifteen autonomous churches (Russia, Crete, etc.). At the end of the nineteenth century,...