{"id":138273,"date":"2025-07-03T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138273"},"modified":"2025-07-04T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:22:15","slug":"church-timesretired-clergy-keeping-the-show-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138273","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Retired clergy\u00a0\u2018keeping the show on the road\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A report published last October showed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/retirement\">retired<\/a>\u00a0clergy to be the largest group among ordained ministers in the Church of England. They outnumber licensed clergy in every diocese \u2014 in some, by a factor of more than two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taken together, the number of clergy pensioners and their spouses, plus retired self-supporting ministers, approaches 25,000, suggests Canon Julian Hubbard, a former Director of Ministry at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/archbishops-council\">Archbishops\u2019 Council<\/a>, and, since 2020, Retired Clergy Officer (RCO) for Guildford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is the author of the report\u00a0<em>The Role and Work of Retired Clergy Officers in the Dioceses of the Church of England<\/em>. Forty-one out of the 42 dioceses responded to the survey of what that ministry comprised, which revealed a wide variation, depending on size, geography, and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/27-june\/features\/features\/retired-clergy-keeping-the-show-on-the-road\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Retired clergy \u2018keeping the show on the road\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oTdDJsWvtz\">https:\/\/t.co\/oTdDJsWvtz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1938923333149450345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report published last October showed\u00a0retired\u00a0clergy to be the largest group among ordained ministers in the Church of England. They outnumber licensed clergy in every diocese \u2014 in some, by a factor of more than two. Taken together, the number<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138273\">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":[103,324,435,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-the-elderly","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\/138273","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=138273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138302,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138273\/revisions\/138302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}