{"id":35357,"date":"2012-10-29T04:10:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T04:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_church_panel_under_pressure_to_name_new_anglican_leader\/"},"modified":"2012-10-29T04:10:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T04:10:25","slug":"reuters_church_panel_under_pressure_to_name_new_anglican_leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35357","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Church panel under pressure to name new Anglican leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The succession talks are shrouded in secrecy, but commentators speculate that the panel is split over choosing a reformer or a safe pair of hands to maintain the status quo in a post that dates back 1,400 years.<\/p>\n<p>Members were expected to reach a decision in September and pass two names &#8211; their first choice and a back-up &#8211; to Prime Minister David Cameron, who then seeks the approval of The Queen, the church&#8217;s supreme governor.<\/p>\n<p>Williams leaves to take up a role at the University of Cambridge at the turn of the year and his successor would normally be expected to give his diocese notice of his departure and be given time to move. One unnamed church source told a Sunday newspaper that the process was &#8220;becoming a farce&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/10\/25\/uk-britain-archbishop-idUKBRE89O0XS20121025\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The succession talks are shrouded in secrecy, but commentators speculate that the panel is split over choosing a reformer or a safe pair of hands to maintain the status quo in a post that dates back 1,400 years. Members were<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35357\">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":[36,39,50,74,67,389,635,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35357","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=35357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}