{"id":135064,"date":"2025-02-19T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135064"},"modified":"2025-02-20T06:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T11:52:24","slug":"nominee-to-be-the-next-bishop-of-durham-withdraws-from-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135064","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Nominee\u00a0to be the next Bishop of\u00a0Durham withdraws from appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The person nominated to be the next\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-durham\">Bishop of Durham<\/a>\u00a0has withdrawn from the process, it was announced on Monday. It has not been publicly revealed who the nominee was, or why they declined to take up the appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statement released by Church House on Monday afternoon said that the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/crown-nominations-commissionbishops-appointments\">Crown Nominations Commission<\/a>&nbsp;(CNC) for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/diocese-of-durham\">Durham<\/a>&nbsp;had nominated a candidate, after interviews in November last year, but that this person had now \u201cdecided to withdraw from the nomination\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Durham CNC had agreed to reconvene \u201clater in the year to continue the process of discernment\u201d, the statement said, with a timetable to be issued in due course. A reserve candidate had not been chosen, which means that the process is likely to have to restart from an early stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Suffragan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-jarrow\">Bishop of Jarrow<\/a>, the Rt Revd Sarah Clark, will continue in her position as Acting Bishop of Durham, which she has held since the retirement of the Rt Revd Paul Butler last year&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/21-february\/news\/uk\/nominee-for-see-of-durham-withdraws-from-appointment\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The person nominated to be the next Bishop of Durham has withdrawn from the process, it was announced on Monday. It has not been publicly revealed who the nominee was, or why they declined to take up the appointment.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UbR4Gp3jyo\">https:\/\/t.co\/UbR4Gp3jyo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1892417243004203126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The person nominated to be the next\u00a0Bishop of Durham\u00a0has withdrawn from the process, it was announced on Monday. It has not been publicly revealed who the nominee was, or why they declined to take up the appointment. A statement released<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135064\">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":[389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135064","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=135064"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135069,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135064\/revisions\/135069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}