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. and the seventh-largest Christian denomination) has changed Johnson is a gay man, and both were ordained extraordinarily at a time when gays and lesbians were not allowed to be appointed.
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The Rev. Megan Rohrer was elected bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America s Sierra Pacific synod on Saturday, becoming the first transgender person to serve as bishop in the denomination or in any of the U.S. major Christian faiths. Rohrer, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in San Francisco and community chaplain co-ordinator for the San Francisco Police Department, was the first transgender person to be ordained in the ELCA in 2006 and the first to serve as a pastor when called to Grace Lutheran in 2014. Well known for advocating for LGBTQ rights in street activism, preaching and writing, Rohrer, 41, who uses the pronouns they and them, is also recognized for their work with the homeless. They have also attained minor celebrity status stemming from appearances on the television series Queer Eye and in profiles in Time magazine and Cosmopolitan, where they recounted their struggles as a young LGBTQ Christian and as a person coming to terms physically and spirit