{"id":113863,"date":"2022-07-14T16:24:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113863"},"modified":"2022-07-14T18:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T22:37:15","slug":"tec-finalizes-the-merger-of-2-texas-dioceses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113863","title":{"rendered":"TEC finalizes the merger of 2 Texas dioceses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Church has voted to approve the merger of two dioceses in Texas, one of which lost its property, name and assets in court to a&#8230;[group of Anglicans who hold to what the majority of Anglicans worldwide believe about anthropology and marriage].<\/p>\n<p>The Episcopal Church in North Texas (ECNTX), formerly known as the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, has been seeking to merge with the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>At the mainline denomination\u2019s 80th General Convention, the House of Deputies approved a resolution for the merger last Saturday, while the House of Bishops approved it on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Scott Mayer, bishop provisional of North Texas, spoke at the General Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, explaining that he was \u201clooking forward to a wonderful future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/episcopal-church-finalizes-merger-of-two-texas-dioceses.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Church has voted to approve the merger of two dioceses in Texas, one of which lost its property, name and assets in court to a&#8230;[group of Anglicans who hold to what the majority of Anglicans worldwide believe about<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113863\">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":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episcopal-church-tec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113863","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=113863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113864,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113863\/revisions\/113864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}