Church of Sweden Archbishop Anders Wejryd ordained an openly lesbian woman as Bishop of Stockholm on November 8, 2009, according to Ecumenical News International (ENI).
The archbishop said the Swedish (Lutheran) Church encourages faithful and stable relationships between people whatever their sexual orientation may be.
The Church of Sweden issued a press statement when Eva Brunne, 55, was consecrated as the Bishop of Stockholm in a ceremony at Uppsala Cathedral, the mother church of the world's largest Lutheran denomination with some seven million members.
Brunne lives in a civil union with another woman, Gunilla Linden, who is a Church of Sweden pastor, and they are the guardians of a three-year-old child.
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