Eva Brunne
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The Right Reverend Eva Brunne |
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Brunne in September 2012
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| Church | Church of Sweden |
| Diocese | |
| Installed | 8 November 2009 |
| Predecessor | Caroline Krook |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Gerd Eva Cecilia Brunne |
| Born |
7 March 1954 Malmö, Sweden |
| Denomination | Lutheranism |
| Spouse | Gunilla Lindén |
| Alma mater | Lund University |
| Motto | Don't show favouritism (James 2:1) |
Gerd Eva Cecilia Brunne (born 7 March 1954) is a bishop in the Church of Sweden. She became the in 2009. She is the first openly lesbian bishop of a mainstream church in the world and the first bishop of the Church of Sweden to be in a registered same-sex partnership.
Brunne was born in Malmö, where she also grew up, on 7 March 1954. Following college, she became a theology student at Lund University. She was ordained as a priest in 1978 and started serving in the Diocese of Lund, comprising Sweden's southernmost provinces of Blekinge and Scania. Brunne spent the first years of her priesthood in Karlskrona, Blekinge. In 1980, upon becoming Secretary General of the Swedish Student Christian Movement, Brunne took up a permanent residence in . Before taking up the post of vicar of Sundbyberg parish in 1990, she functioned as university chaplain and bishop's adviser. Following eight years of vicarship in Sundbyberg, Brunne spent another eight years as vicar of Flemingsberg. In 2000, she became the head of Huddinge and Botkyrka deanary, serving as such until 2006.
Having represented the clergy in the chapter of the from 1997 until 2005, she became dean of the diocese in 2006. On 26 May 2009, Brunne was elected Bishop of Stockholm, succeeding Caroline Krook. She is the first openly lesbian bishop in the world and the first bishop of the Church of Sweden to have lived in a registered homosexual partnership. Brunne won the election by 413 votes to 365 and said: "It is very positive that our church is setting an example here and is choosing me as bishop based on my qualifications, when they also know that they can meet resistance elsewhere." On the official website of the Church of Sweden, Brunne wrote: "I know what it is to be called into question. I am in the lucky situation that I have power, and I can use it for the benefit of those who have no power."
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