{"id":35761,"date":"2012-11-20T03:37:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T03:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/afp_in_south_africa_anglicans_ordain_africas_first_woman_bishop\/"},"modified":"2012-11-20T03:37:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T03:37:22","slug":"afp_in_south_africa_anglicans_ordain_africas_first_woman_bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35761","title":{"rendered":"(AFP) In South Africa, Anglicans ordain Africa&#39;s first woman bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church of Southern Africa has ordained the first woman bishop on the African continent, officials said Monday, in a historic move that comes as the Church of England in London prepares to vote on whether to allow female bishops.<\/p>\n<p>The consecration of Ellinah Wamukoya, originally from the diocese of Swaziland, took place in the country&#8217;s economic capital Manzini on Saturday in front of more than 3,000 worshippers. She had previously served as mayor of the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were gathered to consecrate and ordain a bishop in the Church of God: not a black woman, not an African, not a Swazi woman, but a priest of the Church,&#8221; the Anglican church said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5ikwzQzuNRakPLPtdKvIJbQuNaBCg?docId=CNG.40fe35c36b547709785d27a27248134e.6b1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church of Southern Africa has ordained the first woman bishop on the African continent, officials said Monday, in a historic move that comes as the Church of England in London prepares to vote on whether to allow female<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35761\">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":[36,406,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-southern-africa","category-anglican-provinces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35761","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=35761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}