{"id":13469,"date":"2009-06-22T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T16:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/william_thompson_is_first_bishop_of_western_anglicans_in_north_america\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T16:32:48","slug":"william_thompson_is_first_bishop_of_western_anglicans_in_north_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13469","title":{"rendered":"William Thompson is First Bishop of Western Anglicans in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Bill Thompson, Rector of All Saints Anglican Church, Long Beach, California, is the first Bishop of the Diocese of Western Anglicans of the Anglican Church in North America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first reaction upon my election,\u201d\u009d the Bishop\u201d\u0090elect said, \u201cwas to feel very humbled that the College of Bishops felt that I was the person to do this job. Being the Bishop of Western Anglicans is a job that neither I nor anyone else can do on their own. I will need the prayers, support, and hard work, of many to make our diocese what God wants it to be.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernanglicans.org\/resources\/20090621-bishop-announcement.pdf\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Bill Thompson, Rector of All Saints Anglican Church, Long Beach, California, is the first Bishop of the Diocese of Western Anglicans of the Anglican Church in North America. \u201cMy first reaction upon my election,\u201d\u009d the Bishop\u201d\u0090elect said, \u201cwas<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13469\">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":[36,605,63,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-proposed-formation-of-a-new-north-american-province","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-common-cause-partnership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469","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=13469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}