{"id":101724,"date":"2021-04-28T17:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101724"},"modified":"2021-04-28T18:53:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:53:53","slug":"shropshire-star-ludlow-welcomes-first-female-archdeacon-since-diocese-of-herefords-inception-in-676","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101724","title":{"rendered":"(Shropshire Star) Ludlow welcomes first female Archdeacon since Diocese of Hereford&#8217;s inception in 676"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[the] Revd Fiona Gibson was installed as the Ludlow Archdeacon on Monday in a historic moment for Shropshire and the Diocese of Hereford.<\/p>\n<p>Fiona said she doesn&#8217;t feel the weight of her role as the first woman in a senior role in the diocese too heavily, but hopes to inspire other women into leadership roles in the church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am the first female senior member of the clergy since the diocese was founded in 676,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It is a significant moment for the church but at the same time I am just me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not coming into this feeling the weight of being the first woman, I am going into it as Fiona Gibson, and I want God to use me in this role with the skills and experiences and gifts he has given me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/south-shropshire\/ludlow\/2021\/04\/27\/ludlow-welcomes-first-female-archdeacon-since-diocese-of-herefords-inception-in-676\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;re delighted to have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fionargibson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@fionargibson<\/a> here in our Diocese too &#8211; We look forward to chatting to you again <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlotteB_Star?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CharlotteB_Star<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ue9raAREXH\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ue9raAREXH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hereford Diocese (@HerefordDiocese) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HerefordDiocese\/status\/1387354437048471554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[the] Revd Fiona Gibson was installed as the Ludlow Archdeacon on Monday in a historic moment for Shropshire and the Diocese of Hereford. Fiona said she doesn&#8217;t feel the weight of her role as the first woman in a senior<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101724\">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":[389,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101724","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=101724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101726,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101724\/revisions\/101726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}