sentences:  In 2015, however, Gorski became the first homosexual to serve as head of office for the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD) and Vice-President of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).In May 2009 the Diocese of Stockholm in the Church of Sweden elected Eva Brunne as its bishop.She won the vote by 413 votes to 365 and officially succeeded Bishop Caroline Krook in November 2009.