Ilkka Kantola

Ilkka Tapani Kantola (born 17 March 1957) is a Finnish politician and Lutheran minister.

He graduated as Doctor of Theology from the University of Helsinki in 1994.

[1] In 2005 Kantola resigned after it was revealed that he had an extramarital affair with a married female minister.

This was the first time when a Bishop of the Lutheran Church of Finland resigned prematurely.

From 2011 to 2015, he chaired the Administrative Council of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle).