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About Arto Antturi
- Arto Kai Antturi (born Helsinki, 10 June 1961) is a Finnish Lutheran priest.
- He is the vicar for the parish of Pitäjänmäki. Arto Antturi’s father was the Pentecostal minister Kai Antturi.
- Arto Antturi graduated with a master’s degree in theology from the University of Helsinki in 1989.
- For most of the 1990s, he worked as a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Exegesis at the same university.
- He received a scholarship from the Alfred Kordelin Foundation in 1992.
- In 1997, he received a grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
- He has studied at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, USA. Later, Antturi lived with his family in Dublin for two years, serving as a priest for the Finnish Seamen’s Mission.
- At the beginning of 2000, he was appointed as the Executive Director of the Helsinki-based Thomas Community.
- In 2003, he became a priest in the Cathedral parish and in 2010 became a chaplain in that parish.
- He served as chaplain at the Helsinki Old Church from 2010 to 2014.
- He took his office as vicar of Pitäjänmäki on 1 January 2015. Antturi has been involved in various media work and public duties.
- In 1987, Antturi co-founded the gospel band Exit and played bass in the band from 1987 to 1991.
- He was a deputy councillor in Helsinki City Council for the Centre Party in 1997.
- He has served as the editor of the Thomas Community from 2000 to 2003, as well as a columnist for other magazines, including that for Radio Dei.
- He has broadcast devotions on Yle Radio 1.
- In 2009, Antturi ran a fundraising campaign at the Narinkka Square in Helsinki called “The Priest and The Idiot”, in which he read Dostoevsky's work The Idiot for 10 euros a page.
- This was to raise funds for World Vision’s work with poor families in Kenya.
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