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SF's Rohrer to become 1st openly trans bishop in US

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The Reverend Dr. Megan Rohrer, a San Francisco Lutheran pastor, is set to become the first openly transgender person ever to become a bishop in a major United States Christian denomination.

Rohrer, who has served as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in the Outer Sunset since 2014 and as community chaplain coordinator for the San Francisco Police Department since 2018, was elected to a six-year term leading the Sierra Pacific Synod May 8 by a vote of 209-207, edging out the Reverend Jeff R.

Johnson, who's pastor of University Lutheran Chapel of Berkeley. Rohrer, 41, told the Bay Area Reporter that the election was a sign of how much the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (the largest Lutheran community in the U.S.

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