Porvoo Cathedral

Porvoo Cathedral (Finnish: Porvoon tuomiokirkko; Swedish: Borgå domkyrka) is a cathedral of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland in Porvoo, Finland.

The cathedral is also used for services by the Porvoo Finnish-speaking parish, which is administratively part of the Diocese of Helsinki.

On 29 May 2006, the outer roof collapsed in a fire, but with the inner ceiling undamaged and the cathedral interiors intact.

[2] An 18-year-old man was convicted of arson and sentenced to six and a half years in prison.

[5] The cathedral hosted the joint celebration Eucharist to mark the signing of a formal agreement between the British and Irish Anglican churches and the Nordic (Scandinavian) and Baltic Lutheran churches (completed in 1992), which took its name from Porvoo as the Porvoo Common Statement theological agreement, forming the Porvoo Communion was adopted.

Porvoo Cathedral in January 2006
Porvoo Cathedral after arson in May 2006; the cathedral's roof has been reconstructed
The separate belltower
Tsar Alexander I opens the Diet of Porvoo in the cathedral, 1809
From right to left: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev , his wife Svetlana Medvedeva , Finnish President Tarja Halonen and her husband Pentti Arajärvi at the Porvoo Cathedral in 2009