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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.
[May 2008]
Rev Esa Fabrin
Esa Fabrin was born in 1945 in Tampere. He studied in Helsinki
University, graduating in 1969. He has worked in The
Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Finland since then and and in Hospital
Chaplaincy since 1973.
- as hospital chaplain, supervisor (1980-),
- clinical pastoral trainer (1986- in Tampere diocese, 1990-95 in the
Centre of Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland for Hospital Chaplaincy
in Helsinki, 1991-95 responsible trainer of The Church of Finland for
Tartu & Tallinn-CPE-project in Estonia)
- KSA (Klinische Seelsorge Ausbildung, 12-Wochen) 1994 in Bielefeld,
Germany.
Since 2003 he has been working as Director of Hospital Chaplaincy in
Tampere (University Hospital) and will retire in March 2009.
[May 2008]
Booklet about Hospital
Chaplaincy in Finland (975KB)
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