{"id":137349,"date":"2025-05-27T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137349"},"modified":"2025-05-27T18:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:33:37","slug":"church-times-bishop-of-islington-dr-ric-thorpe-elected-archbishop-of-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137349","title":{"rendered":"(Church times) Bishop of Islington Dr Ric Thorpe elected Archbishop of Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Suffragan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-islington\">Bishop of Islington<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/diocese-of-london\">diocese of London<\/a>, Dr Richard (Ric) Thorpe, is to be the next Archbishop of Melbourne in the Anglican Church of Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He succeeds the Rt Revd Philip Freier, who retired in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Thorpe was elected by the Melbourne Diocesan Synod on Friday. He and three other candidates were proposed to the Synod by the Board of Nominators, made up of elected clergy and lay representatives (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/16-may\/news\/world\/world-news-in-brief\">News, 16 May<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other candidates, all from Melbourne diocese, were eliminated in two rounds of voting. They were: the Executive Director of CMS Victoria, the Revd Dr Wei-Han Kuan; the Vicar of St John\u2019s, Diamond Creek, the Ven. Dr Tim Johnson; and the Vicar of Deep Creek Anglican Church, the Ven. Megan Curlis-Gibson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/30-may\/news\/uk\/bishop-of-islington-dr-ric-thorpe-elected-archbishop-of-melbourne\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Suffragan Bishop of Islington in the diocese of London, Dr Richard (Ric) Thorpe, is to be the next Archbishop of Melbourne in the Anglican Church of Australia <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vPxaaWAHkI\">https:\/\/t.co\/vPxaaWAHkI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1927388550942564700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Suffragan\u00a0Bishop of Islington\u00a0in the\u00a0diocese of London, Dr Richard (Ric) Thorpe, is to be the next Archbishop of Melbourne in the Anglican Church of Australia. He succeeds the Rt Revd Philip Freier, who retired in February. Dr Thorpe was elected<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137349\">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":[395,204,389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-australia-nz","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137349","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=137349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137353,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137349\/revisions\/137353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}