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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
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visitors. As the Seamen's Church is an independent foundation and, while in
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parish in 1990, she functioned as university chaplain and bishop's adviser. Following eight years of vicarship in
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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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and other members of the party stormed out of the church. Ă…kesson said that the Bishop obviously attacked his party in her speech. Brunne denied that the speech was directed against a specific party.
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