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Suede : Le pasteur est une femme comme les autres

2017 - Gay Pride de Stockholm, avec l'eglise de Suede

Elin Hyldeen Gartner (left) often meets her friends and also colleagues at Gretas, a hip cafe in the center of Stockholm for lunch.

Anna Nordin and Evelina Gilberg, students at the Theology Institute of Uppsala, try on robes and shirts at the workshop of designer Maria Sjödin, who created the brand "Casual Priest" 15 years ago.

Evelina Gilberg, a student at the Theology Institute of Uppsala, try on robes and shirts at the workshop of designer Maria Sjödin, who created the brand "Casual Priest" 15 years ago.

Anna Nordin, Evelina and Daniel Gilberg, students at the Theology Institute of Uppsala, try on robes and shirts at the workshop of designer Maria Sjödin.

Sabina Koij during a visit of Stockholm's Cathedral

Sabina Koij during mass at the Stockholm Cathedral

Sofia Backsten, a young 25 years old priest, during mass at Hammarby Sjöstad chapel, south of Stockholm.

A reunion of the priests of Sofia Parish, in Södermalm, Stockholm.

27/01/2017 - Priere du matin a la cathedrale de Stockholm

A bible in Swedish, in an edition of the very first translation

Kristina Ljunggren, chaplain of Stockholm's cathedral, during the rehearsals of the ordination ceremony

Kristina Ljunggren, chaplain of Stockholm's cathedral, shows how to knot the stole to Ida Mohlin, who will be ordained priest.

Jennie Wall, who is already a priest, Emelie Björling and Lena Thoms, who will be ordained

Emelie Björling kisses her daughters before her ordination.

Eva Brunne, Stockholm's bishop, just before the ordination of six priests

Bishop Eva Brunne, before the procession for the ordination of six priests at Stockholm's cathedral

The new priests, with bishop Eva Brunne, in the Cathedral of Stockholm

Karin Ohagen baptizes the son of a couple of her friends.

Karin Ohagen, her wife and their daughter, during the baptism of a couple of her friends' son.

Karin Ohagen plays with her daughter, after the baptism of a couple of her friends' son.

Karin Ohagen, her wife and their daughter go to lunch after the baptism.

05/08/2017 - Messe "Pridemassa" le jour de la Gay Pride de Stockholm, a l'eglise Kungsholms Kyrka, avec l'eveque de Stockholm Eva Brunne.

05/08/2017 - Une pasteure et sa compagne en tete du cortege, suivie d'Eva Brunne, Eveque de Stockholm, pendant la Gay Pride de Stockholm, ou l'Eglise de Suede a son cortege.

05/08/2017 - Une pasteure au milieu de jeunes croyants pendant la Gay Pride de Stockholm, ou l'Eglise de Suede a son cortege.

05/08/2017 - Pasteure dans le cortege de l'Eglise de Suede, lors de la Gay Pride de Stockholm

05/08/2017 - L'Eveque de Stockholm Eva Brunne, en tete du cortege de l'Eglise de Suede, lors de la Gay Pride de Stockholm

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500 years after the Lutheran reformation, about half of the priests in Sweden are women, and if this tendency goes on, they will become a majority. In a society famous for being one of the most equalitarian in the world, a woman is the Archbishop and has welcomed the pope Francis and it’s a lesbian woman who’s the bishop of the capital’s diocese.
In 2018, it will be 60 years that the decision to ordain women was made. Since 1958, Sweden has evolved in many aspects, as has the place of the priests in society. Did the role of the priest in Sweden change because more and more women answered the call, or is it that more women became priests because the profession and the image have evolved with society?

[Published in the review 6 Mois #14, sept. 2017]
[Published in The New York Times – Nov. 4th 2018]