The Parishes of Sjundeå

Welcome! We are the Swedish-speaking Evangelical Lutheran parish of Sjundeå.

Sjundeå/Siuntio is a bilingual municipality in Southern Finland with residents speaking either Finnish or Swedish as their first language. Hence there are two Evangelical Lutheran parishes in Sjundeå. We, the Swedish sepaking parish, have about 1380 members, which is around 80% of the Swedish-speaking population of the municipality.

Together the two parishes form the Parish Union of Siuntio, which is a legal organ taking care of economics and real estate.

The Swedish speaking parish of Sjundeå is part of the Borgå Diocese and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.

The current vicar of is Mr. Tom Bergman.

Brief history

It's not certain exactly when the parish of Sjundeå was founded but it is believed that it happened somehwere around 1460s when St. Peter's church was built. The parish was originally Roman Catholic. The parish became Lutheran when the Reformation of the church was carried out in the Kingdom of Sweden, which Finland was a part of at the time.

In 1998 a decision was made to devide the parish of Sjundeå into two independent congregations based on the two official languages in the municipality. Finally in 2000 the Swedish speaking and the Finnish speaking congregations were founded. Before this division there was only one congregation in the parish of Sjundeå.