The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland is a national church of Finland. It is part of the Lutheran branch of Christianity. The church has a legal position as a national church in the country, along with the Orthodox Church of Finland.
Turku Cathedral, the primatial and mother church of Finland
The sixteenth-century Hollola church which was converted during the Reformation
The seal of the Diocese of Turku during the 16th and 17th centuries featured the finger of St Henry. The post-Reformation diocese included the relic of a pre-Reformation saint in its seal.
The Cathedral of Turku is considered the national shrine of Finland, and is the seat of its de facto primate.
Henry (bishop of Finland)
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Henry was a medieval English clergyman. He came to Sweden with Cardinal Nicholas Breakspeare in 1153 and was most likely designated to be the new Archbishop of Uppsala, but the independent church province of Sweden could only be established in 1164 after the civil war, and Henry would have been sent to organize the Church in Finland, where Christians had already existed for two centuries.
Bishop Henry surrounded by his successors as depicted in Missale Aboense.
Cathedral of Turku was the center of Henry's cult.
Henry was also venerated in the Cathedral of Lund.