[citation needed] Mäkipää was ordained deacon by The Rt Revd Geoffrey Rowell, Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, at Mikael Agricola Church, Helsinki in May 2005.

He served as an assistant curate in the Chaplaincy of St Nicholas, Helsinki and was ordained priest by the Rt Revd David Hamid, suffragan bishop of the Diocese in Europe, in 2010.

He was the first Finnish Lutheran ordained in the Church of England under the Porvoo Agreement.

In 2015, Mäkipää was elected to the Church of England's General Synod.

[4] In June the same year, he was elected chair of the House of Clergy of the Diocese in Europe's diocesan synod.