{"id":132027,"date":"2024-10-17T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132027"},"modified":"2024-10-17T18:53:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:53:38","slug":"church-times-four-scottish-bishops-urge-anne-dyer-to-consider-her-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132027","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Four Scottish bishops urge Anne Dyer to consider her position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Four of the\u00a0six diocesan bishops of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/scottish-episcopal-church\">Scottish Episcopal Church<\/a>, including the Primus, have urged the Bishop of Aberdeen &amp; Orkney, the Rt Revd Anne Dyer, to consider whether she is the right person to lead the diocese, in light of the response to her reinstatement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday afternoon, the Primus, the Most Revd Mark Strange, and the Bishops of Edinburgh, Brechin, and Argyll &amp; The Isles released a statement to the&nbsp;<em>Church Times<\/em>&nbsp;saying that they had urged Bishop Dyer to \u201cconsider whether she is still the right person to lead the diocese\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesman for Bishop Dyer told the&nbsp;<em>Church Times<\/em>&nbsp;that it was a \u201cmatter of profound regret\u201d that the bishops had \u201csought to improperly pressurise her to step down at this time and in this way\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bishop Dyer was first suspended more than two years ago, and had been due to face a disciplinary tribunal on allegations including bullying and abuse of her position (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2022\/12-august\/news\/uk\/bishop-dyer-fights-suspension-in-aberdeen-orkney\">News, 12 August 2022<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/18-october\/news\/uk\/four-scottish-bishops-urge-dyer-to-consider-her-position\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exclusive: Four of the six diocesan bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, including the Primus, have urged the Bishop of Aberdeen &amp; Orkney to consider whether she is the right person to lead the diocese, in light of the response to her reinstatement <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7vlmNisRlZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/7vlmNisRlZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1846913840065241418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four of the\u00a0six diocesan bishops of the\u00a0Scottish Episcopal Church, including the Primus, have urged the Bishop of Aberdeen &amp; Orkney, the Rt Revd Anne Dyer, to consider whether she is the right person to lead the diocese, in light of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132027\">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":[398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scottish-episcopal-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132027","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=132027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132030,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132027\/revisions\/132030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}