Riku Tuppurainen
MATS in Exegesis and Biblical Languages (Assemblies of God Theological Seminary)
DTh in New Testament (University of South Africa)
Ministerial Credentials: Ordained by the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
At Horizon since 2023
Riku Tuppurainen has long experience both from the church and academic ministry. Currently he serves as the Dean of Graduate Studies at Summit Pacific College and as the Global Theological Training Specialist at GlobalEd (PAOC). He has also served as the Dean of Graduate Studies and a Professor of New Testament at Continental Theological Seminary in Belgium. He has taught in several countries in Europe, South-East Asia, and West Africa, and has pastoral experience from his native country of Finland, as well as from several cities in Canada, the most recently in Vancouver.
Dr. Tuppurainen has published articles and book reviews in various academic journals. He has edited two books, Pentecostal Issues, Ecclesiology & Ecumenism: Papers Presented in Theological Positions Colloquiums 2010 & 2011, Continental Theological Seminary, 2011 (co-edited); and Reading St. Luke’s Text and Theology: Pentecostal Voices, Pickwick, 2019. He has also authored a book entitled, A Prologue to Studies in the Fourth Gospel: Its Independency, Issues, and Interpretations, Wipf and Stock, 2021.
He lives with his wife, Anne, and son, Alex, in Vancouver, BC.
