Teemu Jyrki Juhani Sippo SCI (born 20 May 1947 in Lahti, Finland) is the current Roman Catholic Bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

 of Helsinki

Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

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Life

Teemu Sippo was born as a Lutheran, and converted to Roman Catholicism in 1966 while he was in his late teens; four years later he decided to start studying to become a priest. He was ordained on 28 May 1977, after studying at the seminary at Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg. He wrote his Master's thesis on Paul Tillich's

Paul Tillich

Paul Johannes Tillich was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the 20th century...

 principle of Protestantism. His thesis advisor was Karl Lehmann.
After that he worked in Helsinki and Jyväskylä. On June 2008 he became diocesan administrator of the single Catholic diocese in Finland, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helsinki

Roman Catholic Diocese of Helsinki

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Helsinki is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church based in Helsinki, which comprises the whole of Finland...

, succeeding Josef Wrobel, who had been appointed auxiliary bishop of Lublin

Lublin

Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

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