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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.

[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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