{"id":32761,"date":"2012-05-29T21:30:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/five_vie_to_be_episcopal_bishop_in_western_massachusetts\/"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:30:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T21:30:15","slug":"five_vie_to_be_episcopal_bishop_in_western_massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32761","title":{"rendered":"Five vie to be Episcopal bishop in Western Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five candidates seeking to become the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts, which includes Worcester County, come from diverse backgrounds and include a former music industry executive, a former Roman Catholic priest and book editor, and a former banker.<\/p>\n<p>Clergy and lay delegates will vote on a new bishop Saturday at Christ Church Cathedral in Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>Pending the consent of the church&#8217;s 77th General Convention, which will be held in July, the new prelate will be ordained Dec. 1 during ceremonies at the MassMutual Center, also in Springfield.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20120527\/NEWS\/105279804\/1246\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five candidates seeking to become the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts, which includes Worcester County, come from diverse backgrounds and include a former music industry executive, a former Roman Catholic priest and book editor, and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32761\">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":[36,66,372,379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32761","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=32761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}