{"id":35084,"date":"2012-10-13T23:01:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T23:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ajc_robert_wright_becomes_first_african-american_episcopal_bishop_for_atlan\/"},"modified":"2012-10-13T23:01:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T23:01:46","slug":"ajc_robert_wright_becomes_first_african-american_episcopal_bishop_for_atlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35084","title":{"rendered":"(AJC) Robert Wright becomes first African-American Episcopal bishop for Atlanta diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(From last night) The Rev. Robert C. Wright will be ordained as the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta in a ceremony Saturday at the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony, which begins at 10:30 a.m., will be held at the chapel, 830 Westview Dr. S.W.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, 48, a Howard University and Virginia Theological Seminary graduate, will become the first African-American bishop to lead the diocese, which is among the largest in the world. The Atlanta diocese, which covers middle and north Georgia, has 96 parishes and 56,000 members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/news\/wright-becomes-first-african-american-episcopal-bi\/nSb3P\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(From last night) The Rev. Robert C. Wright will be ordained as the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta in a ceremony Saturday at the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College. The ceremony, which begins<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35084\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35084","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=35084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}