{"id":23031,"date":"2010-11-22T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/western_new_york_episcopalians_pick_church_historian_as_new_bishop\/"},"modified":"2010-11-22T00:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T00:00:25","slug":"western_new_york_episcopalians_pick_church_historian_as_new_bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23031","title":{"rendered":"Western New York Episcopalians pick church historian as new bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Area Episcopalians elected a church historian and former divinity school president as their 11th bishop Saturday evening after more than seven hours of voting.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. R. William Franklin, who has been a priest for just five years, but spent nearly 30 years in a variety of Episcopal lay ministry roles, received the majority of votes needed from both clergy and laity of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York on the seventh ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin edged out the Rev. Barbara J. Price, rector of St. Peter\u2019s Church in Amherst and the only local candidate in the four-person race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city\/communities\/buffalo\/article260592.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Area Episcopalians elected a church historian and former divinity school president as their 11th bishop Saturday evening after more than seven hours of voting. The Rev. R. William Franklin, who has been a priest for just five years, but spent<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23031\">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":[36,66,167,372,379,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-seminary-theological-education","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23031","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=23031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}