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Sweden Gets Lesbian Bishop

A partnered lesbian will serve the Church of Sweden as bishop of Stockholm, the capital city.


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The Church of Sweden on Sunday consecrated its first openly gay bishop.

Eva Brunne, 55, became bishop of Stockholm, Sweden's capital, in a ceremony in nearby Uppsala, reported Agence France-Presse and the website The Local. Brunne is in a civil partnership with a woman, and they have a 3-year-old child.

Consecrated with her was another woman, Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund, who will be bishop of Härnösand in northern Sweden. This was the first time the church had consecrated two female bishops at the same time.

The Church of Sweden, which is Lutheran and was once the state church, supported the nation’s marriage equality law, which took effect May 1, and beginning November 1 opened church weddings to same-sex couples. The state had previously recognized, and the church blessed, marriage-like partnerships. About three quarters of Swedes are members of the denomination.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Fred Stanley
    Date posted: 11/10/2009 12:22:50 AM
    Hometown: Palm Springs, CA

    Comment:

    HALLLELUAH!! I belong to the Metropolitan Community Church that was founded by the Gay minister Troy Perry in 1968. We have churches all over the world.

  • Name: Nathan
    Date posted: 11/9/2009 7:20:09 PM
    Hometown: Franklin

    Comment:

    Kevin there are those types of Christians in America but we are not near as loud as the pretend Christians.

  • Name: Larry
    Date posted: 11/9/2009 7:07:40 PM
    Hometown: NYC

    Comment:

    These type of Christians (Lutherans) DO exist in the U.S. The Lutheran denomination that I belong to, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, this past summer passed resolutions allowing gays and lesbians to be ordained. There are many progressive Christians in the U.S. The press tends to pay way more attention to screaming, fundamentalist homophobic "Christians". They think those people are more interesting to report than intelligent, coherent, Christians who know that we're ALL children of God and fully human, deserving of equal rights, gay or not.

  • Name: AlexL
    Date posted: 11/9/2009 6:19:53 PM
    Hometown: Oakland, CA

    Comment:

    These types of Christians do exist in the USA, they're just not as common as we would like.

  • Name: MaryO
    Date posted: 11/9/2009 6:02:04 PM
    Hometown: New York

    Comment:

    There are Christians in the U.S. like this. We're called Episcopalians.

  • Name: Kevin
    Date posted: 11/9/2009 4:11:11 PM
    Hometown: Ft. Myers

    Comment:

    WHY DON'T THESE TYPE OF CHRISTIANS LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES??????



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