{"id":16434,"date":"2009-12-01T18:45:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T18:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/diocese_of_quebec_on_the_brink_bishop_warns\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T18:45:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T18:45:52","slug":"diocese_of_quebec_on_the_brink_bishop_warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16434","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Quebec on the brink, bishop warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican diocese of Quebec is \u201cteetering on the verge of extinction\u201d\u009d as parish finances continue to collapse and the number of parishioners dwindles.<\/p>\n<p>This doom-and-gloom message was delivered to the recent Canadian House of Bishops meeting here by Bishop Dennis Drainville, who declared that he could possibly be \u201cthe last bishop of Quebec.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Drainville urged the House of Bishops to have a \u201cnew vision\u201d\u009d and to look at how \u201cold relationships and structures\u201d\u009d can be changed to respond to the needs of the times&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec will not be the only diocese to falter, he warned. \u201cThere will be many other dioceses that will fail.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/issues\/2009\/135\/dec\/10\/article\/diocese-on-the-brink-bishop-warns\/?cHash=abcf5794f5\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican diocese of Quebec is \u201cteetering on the verge of extinction\u201d\u009d as parish finances continue to collapse and the number of parishioners dwindles. This doom-and-gloom message was delivered to the recent Canadian House of Bishops meeting here by Bishop<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16434\">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":[36,388,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434","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=16434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}