Serafim Seppälä (born 1970^[1]) is a Finnish academic researcher, writer, and Orthodox Church of Finland archimandrite.^[2] He serves as a professor of systematic theology and patristics at the University of Eastern Finland. Some of his research interests include the encounter between Christianity and Islam in the Middle East, Mariology, Armenia,^[3] and the Byzantine Empire.^[4]^[5]

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