John Rinne

Metropolitan John[1] (secular name Johannes Wilho Rinne; 16 August 1923 – 1 July 2010) was the Orthodox Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland from 1987 to 2001.

Rinne joined the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1966, and he received a doctorate in theology from Finland's Åbo Akademi University in 1966.

In 1967 he received monastic tonsure in the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian in the island of Patmos (Greece).

Following his ordination to the diaconate and priesthood at the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in 1969 he was elected and consecrated Bishop of Lapland, Auxiliary to the Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland, of the autonomous Finnish Orthodox Church.

He was elected Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland and head of the autonomous Finnish Orthodox Church in 1987.