{"id":25084,"date":"2011-03-15T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T02:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_el_paso_st-_francis_pastor_elected_bishop_in_acna\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T02:00:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T02:00:56","slug":"in_el_paso_st-_francis_pastor_elected_bishop_in_acna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25084","title":{"rendered":"In El Paso, St. Francis pastor elected bishop in ACNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the Rev. Cannon Felix Orji, pastor of St. Francis on the Hill on El Paso\u2019s Westside, the news that he had been elected bishop for the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, or CANA, came as a big surprise.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t even know he was a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The last time he learned he was a candidate for bishop, he removed his name from consideration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve not been a contender for the position,\u201d\u009d Orji told El Paso Inc. \u201cMy interest in ministry is to serve the church and to preach the gospel, not to become a big shot. I\u2019ve not really been interested in being a bishop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, this time they did not want to talk to me because they didn\u2019t want me to wriggle out of it again. But I\u2019m delighted.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elpasoinc.com\/readArticle.aspx?issueid=329&#038;xrec=6254\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Rev. Cannon Felix Orji, pastor of St. Francis on the Hill on El Paso\u2019s Westside, the news that he had been elected bishop for the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, or CANA, came as a big surprise.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25084\">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":[36,48,50,202,63,435,327,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-nigeria","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25084","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=25084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}