{"id":266,"date":"2007-06-05T21:05:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T21:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/diocese_of_niagara_elects_new_bishop\/"},"modified":"2007-06-05T21:05:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T21:05:01","slug":"diocese_of_niagara_elects_new_bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Niagara elects new bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archdeacon Michael Bird, 49, a married father of three whose interests include curling and playing the bagpipes, on June 2 was elected bishop of the diocese of Niagara.<\/p>\n<p>He was elected on the fifth ballot at an episcopal election synod held at Christ\u2019s Church Cathedral in Hamilton, Ont., the diocese\u2019s see city. On the final ballot, he received 71 out of 110 clergy votes and 149 out of 243 lay votes, according to synod officials. The election lasted four hours and started with a slate of 12 candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop-elect Bird\u2019s consecration as new bishop has been set for Sept. 30. He will succeed Bishop Ralph Spence, who has announced he intends to retire at the end of February, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/100\/article\/diocese-of-niagara-elects-new-bishop\">Read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archdeacon Michael Bird, 49, a married father of three whose interests include curling and playing the bagpipes, on June 2 was elected bishop of the diocese of Niagara. He was elected on the fifth ballot at an episcopal election synod<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=266\">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":[36,72,388,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-latest-news","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}