Risto Soramies | |
Honorific-Prefix: | Bishop |
Bishop Of: | Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland |
Term Start: | 4 May 2013 |
Birth Place: | Helsinki, Finland |
Church: | Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland |
Ordination: | 1985 |
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.[1]
In December 2014 Soramies consecrated Robert Kaumba as bishop of the Lutheran Evangelical Church in Africa—Zambia Diocese.[2]