{"id":143066,"date":"2026-02-05T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143066"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:10:52","slug":"next-bishop-of-taunton-fiona-gibson-to-start-her-episcopal-ministry-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143066","title":{"rendered":"(Somerset County Gazette) Next Bishop of Taunton, Fiona Gibson, to start her episcopal ministry this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new bishop is set to begin her ministry in Somerset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fiona Gibson will become the next Bishop of Taunton, serving in the Diocese of Bath and Wells after her consecration and installation this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It comes after Reverend Ruth Worsely, after she became the interim Bishop of Liverpool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk\/news\/25824842.next-bishop-taunton-fiona-gibson-start-ministry\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New bishop set to begin ministry in Somerset this weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZthiJfiHPM\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZthiJfiHPM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Somerset County Gazette (@CountyGazette) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CountyGazette\/status\/2019029250276200696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new bishop is set to begin her ministry in Somerset. Fiona Gibson will become the next Bishop of Taunton, serving in the Diocese of Bath and Wells after her consecration and installation this weekend. It comes after Reverend Ruth<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143066\">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":[389,635,435,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143066","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=143066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143072,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143066\/revisions\/143072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}