ENHCC
European Network of Health Care Chaplaincy
HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY IN THE
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF FINLAND
2002 Standards Document in Finnish
Rev. Kirsti Aalto
Director of Hospital Chaplaincy
P.O. Box 185
00161 Helsinki
Finland
kirsti.aalto@evl.fi
- director of the Hospital Chaplaincy in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland since 1991.
- involved in the ENHCC since 1993, when the second Consultation was held in Uppsala, Sweden.
- member of the Steering Committee of the European Council for Pastoral
Care and Counselling (ECPCC)
- member of the Working Group on Bioethics and Biotechnology of the Church and Society Commission (CSC) of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), 2004 – 2009.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland has 120 full-time and 17 part-time hospital chaplains. More than half of them are women. More than half of hospital chaplains also act as supervisors.
[August 2010]
Booklet about Hospital
Chaplaincy in Finland (438KB)