Speeches and sermons

An address to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, at the private audience 19 January 2026

The Power of Faith

Sermon in Sunday Service in Rome Christuskirche Rom, 18th Jan 2026

Resisting empire, promoting peace: Churches confront the Russian world ideology

Opening address at the Ecumenical Conference arranged by the Conference of European Churches

The Speech to the Participants in the 8th Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions

Astana, Kazakhstan 18.9.2025

Opening speech in the International Mission Partnership Consultation

Helsinki, 26th August 2024

Do I see Jesus in what to me seems poor and insignificant?

Speech in the Opening Ceremony at the International Mission Partnership Consultation in Helsinki on 26 August 2024

Religious Communities Must Resist the Temptation of Religious Nationalism

A Speech Delivered by Archbishop Luoma in the Conference "The Cry for Peace – International Meeting for Peace, Religions and Cultures in Dialogue” in Rome, October 24, 2022

In the Light of the Word

Archbishop's speech, Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center ACCC Impact Week Seminar, Sofia Earth Forum, Helsinki

At the Border

Sermon at the opening Mass of the Nordic Bishops’ Conference in Lappeenranta, 24 June 2019

Challenges and Joys in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland

Presentation in the meeting of the World Council of Churches’ Commission on Mission and Evangelism, Helsinki, 20 May 2019

What Is Important?

Sermon in Iceland 21st October 2018

Do not forfeit your soul

Sermon at the Archbishop’s Installation Eucharist on the Second Sunday after Pentecost, Turku Cathedral, 3rd June 2018