{"id":19251,"date":"2010-04-19T02:30:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T02:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/former_bishop_of_georgia_episcopal_diocese_dies\/"},"modified":"2010-04-19T02:30:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T02:30:27","slug":"former_bishop_of_georgia_episcopal_diocese_dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19251","title":{"rendered":"Former bishop of Georgia Episcopal diocese dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s an art form to a worship service, particularly an Episcopal service,&#8221; said Fleming, Reeves&#8217; godson. &#8220;I think his strength was in the liturgy. He was a consummate liturgist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reeves, 91, died Thursday in Asheville, N.C.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves retired to North Carolina in 1985 after serving more than a decade as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia. He was consecrated the diocese&#8217;s seventh bishop in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>The Right Rev. Harry W. Shipps, who succeeded Reeves as bishop, remembered the man both for his strong views and his sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I greatly valued his wisdom, and recall his strong commitment to the historic traditions of the Church,&#8221; Shipps said. &#8220;He had an ironic sense of humor that always amused.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/news\/2010-04-17\/former-bishop-episcopal-diocese-dies\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s an art form to a worship service, particularly an Episcopal service,&#8221; said Fleming, Reeves&#8217; godson. &#8220;I think his strength was in the liturgy. He was a consummate liturgist.&#8221; Reeves, 91, died Thursday in Asheville, N.C. Reeves retired to North<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19251\">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":[36,48,438,66,184,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-death-burial-funerals","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19251","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=19251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}