{"id":35963,"date":"2012-12-01T02:29:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T02:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_former_rector_of_nations_largest_episcopal_church_becomes_a_catholic\/"},"modified":"2012-12-01T02:29:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T02:29:43","slug":"rns_former_rector_of_nations_largest_episcopal_church_becomes_a_catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35963","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Former rector of nation\u2019s largest Episcopal church becomes a Roman Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former rector of the nation&#8217;s largest Episcopal church has become a Roman Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Larry Gipson was dean of the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham from 1982-94. Gipson retired in 2008 from the 8,000-member St. Martin&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Houston, where his parishioners included former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Gipson was accepted as a Catholic into the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, a structure set up by Pope Benedict XVI to accept former Anglicans into the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/faith\/clergy-and-congregations\/former-rector-of-nations-largest-episcopal-church-becomes-a-catholic\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former rector of the nation&#8217;s largest Episcopal church has become a Roman Catholic. The Rev. Larry Gipson was dean of the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham from 1982-94. Gipson retired in 2008 from the 8,000-member St. Martin&#8217;s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35963\">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":[36,48,42,172,158,66,435,154,184,636,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ecclesiology","category-ecumenical-relations","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963","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=35963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}