Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Ingria

Subject / Religion. Church
Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Ingria (ЕLC of Ingeia). Oganizing of ЕLC of Ingria began when Russia surrendered the South shore of the Gulf of Finland and the Karelian Isthmus to Sweden according to the Treaty of Stolbovo in 1617 (Ingermanlandia, Izhora Land). 58 parishes, 36 churches and 42 pastors were in Ingria in 1655. Parishes were subordinated to the Narva Consistory. From 1721 the ecclesiastical guverning passed to the Holy Synod after the return of these lands to Russia in the early 18th century . When Finland was included in Russia (1809), the post of the head of ELC of Ingria was approved in the Consistory of St Petersburg in 1820. Bishop Sakari Syugneus was the first head of ELC of Ingria. From the 1870s the Finnish Sunday Schools began to expand (in the 1910s more than 570 schools with 16,000 pupils worked); Finnish library net began to work in the Gubernia of St Petersburg , partly under churches (22 libraries worked in the late 19th cent.). In 1863–1919 the Teacher -Kuester Seminary worked in Maly Kolpany. In 1914 in Ingria 29 village parishes and 4 town parishes worked (largest parishes were: St Mary in SPb – 16,000 parishioners, Slavyanka – 12,000 parishioners, Toksovo – 10,800 parishioners, Skvoritsy–Ropsha – 9,700 parishioners). In 1917 there are 141,330 parishioners in 25 main parishes of Ingria; 30 pastors and assistants worked in parishes. In 1919 the Committee of the Finland-Ingermanlandia was organized, In 1921 the Finland Consistory was formed (the Supreme Ecclesiastical Council; S.-Y. Laurikkala was a chairman in 1923-1937). In 1929-1930 closing of churches and repressions against clergy were began. 25 churches were closed in 1935-1939 (the last closed church was the church of the parish of Haapakangas near the village of Yukki). 40,000-60,000 Ingermanlandia people were repressed in the 1930s, about 45,000 men were deported in 1941-1942. Again the Finn community was formed in Petrozavodsk in 1964, it was registered in 1970; in 1975 the community was illegally formed in Koltushi, in 1977 the church was opened in Pushkin. In 1990 the Ingermanlandia Prostei was formed under the Estonia Archbishop. In 1993 ELC of Ingria was registered. Archbishop heads ELC of Ingria, the Church Council and the Church administration work under the Archbishop. 16 parishes ( including 11 parishes in the Leningrad Oblast) were in ELC of Ingria in the beginning of the 1990s, 72 parished were in 2003. 15,000 members were registered in ELC of Ingria. The Bishop Church (from 2002) is the Church of St Mary in St Petersburg. The Theological Institute is situated in the village of Kolbino ( the Vsevolozhsky District). Shkarovsky, Mikhail Vitalyevich
Laurikalla, Selim Yalmari
Sugneus (Signeus), Sakari, bishop
Historical Toponyms/Ingermanlandia (Ingria)
Historical Toponyms/Izhora Land
Leningrad Oblast, the/Vsevolozhsk District/Kolbino Village (Kubensky Village Soviet)
Leningrad Oblast, the/Vsevolozhsk District/Koltushi Village
Leningrad Oblast, the/Gatchina District/Maliye Kolpani Village
Neighbouring Territories/Petrozavodsk City
Leningrad Oblast, the/Gatchina District/Skvoritsi Village
Leningrad Oblast, the/Vsevolozhsk District/Toksovo Urban Settlement
Leningrad Oblast, the/Vsevolozhsk District/Yukki Village
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Haltsonen S., Inkerin suomalaisten historia. Helsinki, 1969
Luther G. Herdaminke for Ingermanland. Helsingfors, 2000
Kolpany Teacher-Kuester Seminary
Theology Institute of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Ingria named after S.-Y. Laurikaly