{"id":34233,"date":"2012-08-26T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_zealand_anglican_bishop_gives_up_priesthood\/"},"modified":"2012-08-26T01:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T01:00:48","slug":"new_zealand_anglican_bishop_gives_up_priesthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34233","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Anglican bishop gives up priesthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In a rare move the former head of the Anglican Church in Wellington has surrendered his licence as a priest.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Tom Brown told The Dominion Post yesterday he voluntarily gave up his right to officiate earlier this month &#8220;to be loyal to the church and maintain the church&#8217;s integrity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes amid speculation surrounding the 69-year-old&#8217;s split with wife Dwyllis Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the church community are said to be &#8220;deeply shocked and feel a bit let down&#8221; at Dr Brown&#8217;s decision, which comes only six months after he retired as Bishop of Wellington, a position he held since he was elected in 1998.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominion-post\/news\/7545345\/Anglican-bishop-gives-up-priesthood\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare move the former head of the Anglican Church in Wellington has surrendered his licence as a priest. Bishop Tom Brown told The Dominion Post yesterday he voluntarily gave up his right to officiate earlier this month &#8220;to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34233\">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":[36,48,39,399,74,168,98,435,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-provinces","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34233","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=34233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}