{"id":143663,"date":"2026-03-03T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143663"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:09:14","slug":"church-times-the-bishop-of-lichfield-to-retire-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143663","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) The Bishop of Lichfield to retire in September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-lichfield\">Bishop of Lichfield<\/a>, Dr Michael Ipgrave, is to retire in September, he announced in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/lichfield-cathedral\">Lichfield Cathedral<\/a>\u00a0on Monday, during the St Chad\u2019s Day festal evensong. His announcement was exactly ten years since his nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Ipgrave referred to St Chad as a \u201cconstant inspiration\u201d during his episcopate in Lichfield. The 99th Bishop of Lichfield, Dr Ipgrave said that he had been \u201chumbled to be amongst one of the successors of St Chad, our first and greatest Bishop\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He continued: \u201cChad was the first to bring to Mercia the life-giving, peacemaking, soul-restoring gospel of Jesus Christ. As we face the challenge of re-evangelising our contemporary Mercia, I am convinced that we can only do that by walking in his steps of kindness, friendliness, and humility in the service of others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2026\/6-march\/news\/uk\/bishop-of-lichfield-to-retire-in-september\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Bishop of Lichfield, Dr Michael Ipgrave, is to retire in September, he announced in Lichfield Cathedral on Monday, during the St Chad\u2019s Day festal evensong<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bishopsretirement?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bishopsretirement<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/churchnews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#churchnews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/churchtimes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#churchtimes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oP8mOoslXD\">https:\/\/t.co\/oP8mOoslXD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/2028856029304287649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Lichfield, Dr Michael Ipgrave, is to retire in September, he announced in\u00a0Lichfield Cathedral\u00a0on Monday, during the St Chad\u2019s Day festal evensong. His announcement was exactly ten years since his nomination. Dr Ipgrave referred to St Chad as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143663\">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-143663","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\/143663","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=143663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143666,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143663\/revisions\/143666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}