{"id":13261,"date":"2009-06-10T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T09:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_primus_to_be_elected_during_the_2009_general_synod_of_the_sec\/"},"modified":"2009-06-10T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T09:02:44","slug":"new_primus_to_be_elected_during_the_2009_general_synod_of_the_sec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13261","title":{"rendered":"New Primus to be elected during the 2009 General Synod of the SEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in the history of General Synod, members will witness the election of a new Primus. This will take place during an Episcopal Synod on Saturday morning (13 June) &#8211; where all seven bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church (known collectively as the College of Bishops) will elect a new Primus following the retirement of the Most Rev Dr Idris Jones (current Primus and Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway). The role of Primus, which is taken from the Latin \u201d\u02dcprimus inter pares\u2019 &#8211; meaning \u201d\u02dcfirst among equals\u2019 is to preside over the College of Bishops and represent them and the wider Church at home and throughout the world-wide Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.anglican.org\/index.php\/news\/entry\/new_primus_to_be_elected_during_2009_general_synod\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in the history of General Synod, members will witness the election of a new Primus. This will take place during an Episcopal Synod on Saturday morning (13 June) &#8211; where all seven bishops of the Scottish<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13261\">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":[36,74,398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-scottish-episcopal-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261","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=13261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}