In Finland, the pastor was removed from service for four months after refusal to work with priest women. This is reported by the local edition Yle.
The Cathedral forbade the parish priest Dennis Svenfelt from the Finnish province of Pederser to serve in the parish and called on to devote the coming months to reflements about his position. Previously, the pastor publicly declared his disagreement to work with the ministers of the church of the female.
The first priest women in Finland were ordained in San in 1988. According to Yle, at the moment about half of the priests of the Evangelical Lutheran Church – Women, but in the church leaders they remain in the minority.
September 12 became known that in the US, the Evangelical Lutheran Church first appointed a transgender by the bishop. The presented was elected for six years, he will oversee about 200 monastic communities in California and Nevada. In relation to itself, he asks to use the pronoun “they”.