{"id":15789,"date":"2009-10-28T15:23:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/judge_rules_against_christ_church_in_savannah\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:23:16","slug":"judge_rules_against_christ_church_in_savannah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15789","title":{"rendered":"Judge rules against  Christ Church in Savannah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A two-year legal battle over ownership of the 276-year-old Christ Church came to a close in Chatham County court Tuesday with a judge ruling in favor of the national Episcopal Church&#8217;s claims to the historic property.<\/p>\n<p>Superior Court Judge Michael Karpf rejected the argument of former members and clergy who broke away from the Episcopal Church in 2007 that the church belonged to them.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling grants &#8220;immediate possession&#8221; of Christ Church Savannah and its property in the city&#8217;s historic district to the Right Rev. Henry I. Louttit, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/news\/2009-10-28\/judge-rules-against-breakaway-christ-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-year legal battle over ownership of the 276-year-old Christ Church came to a close in Chatham County court Tuesday with a judge ruling in favor of the national Episcopal Church&#8217;s claims to the historic property. Superior Court Judge Michael<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15789\">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":[36,39,66,114,376,654],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15789","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=15789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}