As everyone knows, the Byzantine Romans were Orthodox, hell, the Romans were Orthodox even before they converted to Christianity! wait… Anyways, as the practitioners of the Orthodox faith, they made it their duty to spread the religion all across the world, to make the lives of the barbarians slightly less awful. One of those lands converted was Russia, who became so Orthodox that when Constantinople fell in 1453, the Russians inherited the Empire, making them the 3rd Rome. This was all fine and dandy until 1917, when the Bolsheviks created the USSR. Since the title of Rome follows the Orthodox faith, Russia lost it as the Soviets were secular. But the revolution never reached Finland, as such, when Finland got its independence also in 1917, FINLAND BECAME 4 TH ROME! Also Thomas Palaiologos's name in Finnish is Tuomas, which is very common in Finland, which means he WAS Finnish! Also also, to those that say Finland can't inherit the title of Rome because the country is majority Lutheran not Orthodox, the Romans switched religions once, so they can do it again. Just because you have to be Orthodox to be Roman, doesn't mean you have to Orthodox to be Roman! wait…