{"id":25083,"date":"2011-03-15T01:40:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T01:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kentnews_anglicans_leave_church_of_england_for_rome\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T01:40:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T01:40:04","slug":"kentnews_anglicans_leave_church_of_england_for_rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25083","title":{"rendered":"(Kentnews) Anglicans leave Church of England for Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Churches have seen their congregations decimated this week after dissident Anglican priests and their parishioners turned to Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of the exodus in both Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells as worshippers opted instead to celebrate their first mass at Catholic churches.<\/p>\n<p>In Tunbridge Wells, Father Ed Tomlinson led 70 worshipers to join St Anselm\u2019s Roman Catholic Church in Pembury leaving a congregation of just 15 at his former church St Barnabas.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Father Ivan Aquilina took 40 parishioners with him to St Thomas\u2019 Roman Catholic Church in Sevenoaks leaving 50 at the town\u2019s St John the Baptist Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentnews.co.uk\/p_12\/Article\/a_12027\/Anglicans_leave_Church_of_England_for_Rome_\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Churches have seen their congregations decimated this week after dissident Anglican priests and their parishioners turned to Rome. Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of the exodus in both Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells as worshippers opted instead to celebrate their first<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25083\">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":[36,48,42,74,389,158,437,435,154,184,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ecumenical-relations","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25083","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=25083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}