Megan Rohrer
From QueerBio.com
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1980 -
Occupation
Religion
Description
Transgender Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, being the first to be appointed to that position (2021). Leads the Sacramento, California-based Sierra Pacific synod, which covers almost 200 different congregations in California and Nevada, for a six-year term. Former pastor at San Francisco’s Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, as well as a community chaplain coordinator for the city’s police department. When he was elected leader of the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in 2014 he became the first openly trans leader at that level of the Lutheran church. The first openly transgender person to be ordained by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (2004).
