Missionary work is likely best known for the evangelization of populations living in countries of the majority world and experiencing extreme poverty. However, the mission of the Church and its charge inherently extends to all peoples, irrespective of race, ethnicity, or financial status. This includes citizens and residents of “developed nations,” an increasing number of whom are unchurched or in search of Christ’s truth either due to being raised in other faiths or denominations, which they eventually abandoned, or a highly secularized environment hostile to the message of the Gospel. This presentation provides a brief overview of the missionary outreach conducted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s northernmost eparchy, the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia, over the past eight years to minister to the various populations of the Northern Lands based on the empirical account of its local spiritual leader His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia.

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