title: Paavo Kontkanen and his Role in Normalization of Relations between the Russian and Finnish Orthodox Churches
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metadata.value: Nikitin, Siluan (episcopus)
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-09T17:31:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-09T17:31:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Nikitin S. S. Paavo Kontkanen and his Role in Normalization of Relations between the Russian and Finnish Orthodox Churches. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1107–1123.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.405
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23679
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metadata.value: The interrelations of the Russian and Finnish Orthodox Churches in the 20th century are dramatic
  and poorly studied by Russian historians. This article, on the basis of materials from
  the State Archives of the Russian Federation and studies into church history translated from
  Finnish, attempts to evaluate the role of Dr. Paavo Kontkanen, an active member of the Finnish
  Archdiocese, in the relations between these two Churches. He exemplified a change in the
  attitude of the National Orthodox Church of Finland towards the Russian Church, historically
  kyriarchal, in the second half of the previous century. Dr. Paavo Kontkanen, being for a long
  time a member of the collegiate administrative body of the Finnish Archdiocese, the Church
  Administrative Council, with permission from Archbishop Herman (Aav) started negotiations
  with the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church on a private level. Having archieved
  understanding with the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations, Metropolitan
  Nicholas (Yarushevich), Kontkanen considered the possibility of reunification of the
  Finnish Church and the Russian Church only for a short period, before receiving the status
  of Autocephalous Local Church from Moscow. Kontkanen’s actions enable to regard him as a
  conductor of Finland’s ecclesiastical interests aimed at rapprochement with the Soviet Union.
  It can be proved by Kontkanen’s close contacts with the President of Finland, Urho Kaleva
  Kekkonen, and his ability to defend interests of the “pro-Russian” part of the clergy and the
  Finnish Orthodox Church in the face of the state and the Church Council.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Alexander (Karpin)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Herman (Aav)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nicholas (Yarushevich)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pavel (Olmari)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Paavo Kontkanen
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Urho Kaleva Kekkonen
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Finnish Orthodox Church
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: autocephaly
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: interchurch relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: jurisdictional status
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Paavo Kontkanen and his Role in Normalization of Relations between the Russian and Finnish Orthodox Churches
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metadata.value: Article
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