{"id":19520,"date":"2010-05-03T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/albany_times-union_ex-episcopal_bishop_returns_to_flock\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T14:23:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:23:20","slug":"albany_times-union_ex-episcopal_bishop_returns_to_flock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19520","title":{"rendered":"Albany Times-Union: Ex-Episcopal bishop returns to flock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative former Episcopal bishop of Albany who left the church in 2007 to become a Roman Catholic has now returned to his former faith.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel W. Herzog became an outspoken national opponent of ordaining gay clergy after he retired from the ministry in 2007. He made news that year when he and two other diocesan bishops left the Episcopal Church to join the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>The Episcopal Church, the American wing of the worldwide Anglican Communion, had been in turmoil following the consecration in 2003 of V. Gene Robinson as its first openly gay bishop.<\/p>\n<p>Herzog&#8217;s return was announced this week by Albany Bishop William Love. Both Herzog and his wife, Carol, left the church. Herzog was one of only a handful of Episcopal bishops ever to join another church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=927358\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative former Episcopal bishop of Albany who left the church in 2007 to become a Roman Catholic has now returned to his former faith. Daniel W. Herzog became an outspoken national opponent of ordaining gay clergy after he retired<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19520\">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":[36,42,66,154,636,364,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520","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=19520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}