{"id":1790,"date":"2007-09-09T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_living_church_pro_american_provincial_dean_in_central_africa_ousted\/"},"modified":"2007-09-09T02:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T02:21:00","slug":"the_living_church_pro_american_provincial_dean_in_central_africa_ousted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1790","title":{"rendered":"The Living Church: Pro-American Provincial Dean in Central Africa Ousted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The political disputes over The Episcopal Church\u2019s place within the Anglican Communion have spilled over into Central Africa, leading to the replacement of the provincial dean, the Rt. Rev. Trevor Mwamba, Bishop of Botswana.<\/p>\n<p>The Rt. Rev. Albert Chama, Bishop of Northern Zambia, was appointed to replace Bishop Mwamba as dean by the church\u2019s General Synod, which began meeting on Sept. 6 in Mangochi, Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>The government-backed Harare Herald reported Bishop Mwamba was \u201crelieved of his duties\u201d\u009d due to his \u201cpro-gay\u201d\u009d and pro-American lobbying, and because he misrepresented \u201cthe province\u2019s position on the issue of homosexuals.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingchurch.org\/publishertlc\/viewarticle.asp?ID=3794\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political disputes over The Episcopal Church\u2019s place within the Anglican Communion have spilled over into Central Africa, leading to the replacement of the provincial dean, the Rt. Rev. Trevor Mwamba, Bishop of Botswana. The Rt. Rev. Albert Chama, Bishop<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1790\">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":[36,50,202,74,407,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-central-africa","category-episcopal-church-tec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","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=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}