{"id":22318,"date":"2010-10-12T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_bishop_of_winchester_intends_to_retire_in_may_2011\/"},"modified":"2010-10-12T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T15:00:22","slug":"the_bishop_of_winchester_intends_to_retire_in_may_2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22318","title":{"rendered":"The Bishop of Winchester Intends to Retire in May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt Revd Michael Scott-Joynt, the Bishop of Winchester, has announced that he intends to retire in May 2011. He has led the Anglican Diocese of Winchester for 15 years. The announcement has been read out today in churches across the Diocese, which serves the majority of Hampshire, east Dorset and the Channel Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Michael has a packed schedule and will continue to be active in the Diocese and fulfilling his local, national and international roles, including in the House of Lords, until he retires. There will be a special service marking this at Winchester Cathedral on 7 May 2011. A range of events reflecting and celebrating Bishop Michael\u2019s long and distinguished ministry will take place in the weeks leading up to his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury intends to appoint the Bishop of Basingstoke, the Rt Revd Peter Hancock as his Commissary during the Vacancy in See. This means that Bishop Peter together with senior colleagues will take responsibility for leading the Diocese of Winchester during the vacancy process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winchester.anglican.org\/page.php?id=2801\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt Revd Michael Scott-Joynt, the Bishop of Winchester, has announced that he intends to retire in May 2011. He has led the Anglican Diocese of Winchester for 15 years. The announcement has been read out today in churches across<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22318\">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":[36,74,389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22318","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=22318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}