Sweden’s Lutheran church names first lesbian bishop
Posted on November 13, 2009
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(Stockholm) Sweden’s Lutheran church consecrated its first openly gay bishop, just two weeks after it gave clergy the right to wed same-sex couples.
Eva Brunne became bishop of Stockholm’s diocese in a ceremony Sunday.
She lives in a “registered partnership” with another woman, a civil union between gays used in Sweden before …
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