{"id":113064,"date":"2022-06-14T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113064"},"modified":"2022-06-14T13:07:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T17:07:30","slug":"acns-former-child-refugee-named-as-next-secretary-general-of-the-anglican-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113064","title":{"rendered":"(ACNS) Former child refugee named as next Secretary General of the Anglican Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Sudanese bishop who was forced with his family into exile before he was one year old, the Right Revd Anthony Poggo, has been named as the next Secretary General of the Anglican Communion. Bishop Anthony Poggo, the former Bishop of Kajo-Keji in the Episcopal Church of South Sudan, is currently the Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s Adviser on Anglican Communion Affairs. <\/p>\n<p>Bishop Anthony was selected for his new role by a sub-committee of the Anglican Communion\u2019s Standing Committee following a competitive recruitment process led by external consultants. <\/p>\n<p>He will take up his new role in September, succeeding the Most Revd Dr Josiah Idowu-Fearon, who steps down after next month\u2019s Lambeth [partial gathering] of Anglican bishops, which is being held in Canterbury, Kent, from 26 July to 8 August.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2022\/06\/former-child-refugee-named-as-next-secretary-general-of-the-anglican-communion.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A South Sudanese bishop who was forced with his family into exile before he was one year old, the Right Revd Anthony Poggo, has been named as the next Secretary General of the Anglican Communion. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Anglicans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Anglicans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AnglicanNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AnglicanNews<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KVsx1QMO6K\">https:\/\/t.co\/KVsx1QMO6K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anglican Communion News Service (@AnglicanNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnglicanNews\/status\/1536685447421763585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/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>A South Sudanese bishop who was forced with his family into exile before he was one year old, the Right Revd Anthony Poggo, has been named as the next Secretary General of the Anglican Communion. Bishop Anthony Poggo, the former<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113064\">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":[72,403,555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-latest-news","category-episcopal-church-of-the-sudan","category-sudan-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113064","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=113064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113066,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113064\/revisions\/113066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}