{"id":10106,"date":"2008-12-11T18:20:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_qa_with_convert_named_us_orthodox_leader\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T18:20:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:20:02","slug":"ap_qa_with_convert_named_us_orthodox_leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10106","title":{"rendered":"AP: Q&#038;A with convert named U.S. Orthodox leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of 11 days in November, the soft-spoken monk known as Jonah saw his life change in ways he hadn&#8217;t dreamed of.<\/p>\n<p>Consecrated first as bishop of Forth Worth and then days later elected as metropolitan of the 100,000-member Orthodox Church in America, he went from being an abbot to being metropolitan of one of the most prominent U.S. branches of the global Orthodox Christian communion.<\/p>\n<p>Born James Paffhausen, the 49-year-old Chicago native was baptized in the Episcopal Church. He converted to Orthodoxy as a college student, was ordained a priest and then became a monk, and founded a monastery now located in Manton, Calif., as well other missions in California and Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2008-12-10-orthodox-christian_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of 11 days in November, the soft-spoken monk known as Jonah saw his life change in ways he hadn&#8217;t dreamed of. Consecrated first as bishop of Forth Worth and then days later elected as metropolitan of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10106\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,418,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-orthodox-church","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}