{"id":136245,"date":"2025-04-07T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136245"},"modified":"2025-04-07T18:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:16:45","slug":"lancashire-telegraph-church-leaders-say-farewell-to-archdeacon-of-blackburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136245","title":{"rendered":"(Lancashire Telegraph) Church leaders say farewell to Archdeacon of Blackburn Mark Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Buckinghamshire-born 64-year-old was was ordained in Blackburn Cathedral 40 years ago, and says he is a parish priest at heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has served in parishes in Blackburn, Lancaster and Accrington, before he moved to Lichfield Diocese as Diocesan Missioner and then a vicar in Telford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is co-author of a number of books on mission, spirituality and evangelism including, most recently, a booklet on the opportunities and risks of living in a digital world: \u2018Surveillance Capitalism and the Loving Gaze of God\u2019 as well as being an active member of General Synod, and previously servinged as an elected member of Archbishops\u2019 Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Archdeacon Mark said, when his retirement was announced, : \u201cIt has been a tremendous privilege to serve God in Blackburn Diocese over the past 40 years and to have worked with five Diocesan bishops during that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/25063878.church-leaders-say-farewell-archdeacon-blackburn\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Church leaders say farewell to Archdeacon of Blackburn <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fOCwTlmAsj\">https:\/\/t.co\/fOCwTlmAsj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lancashire Telegraph (@lancstelegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lancstelegraph\/status\/1908384775158608117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buckinghamshire-born 64-year-old was was ordained in Blackburn Cathedral 40 years ago, and says he is a parish priest at heart. He has served in parishes in Blackburn, Lancaster and Accrington, before he moved to Lichfield Diocese as Diocesan Missioner<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136245\">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":[324,435,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136245","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=136245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136248,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136245\/revisions\/136248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}