{"id":38115,"date":"2013-05-03T15:15:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_priest_declines_irish_bishopric_after_press_highlights_his_pas\/"},"modified":"2013-05-03T15:15:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:15:14","slug":"church_times_priest_declines_irish_bishopric_after_press_highlights_his_pas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38115","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Priest declines Irish bishopric after press highlights his past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ven. Leslie Stevenson, who was to have been consecrated this week as Bishop of Meath &#038; Kildare, in the Irish Republic, withdrew on Sunday after a press campaign against him.<\/p>\n<p>His decision to step aside followed two newspaper articles. One in the Dublin-based Sunday Business Post noted that he would be the first divorced bishop in the history of the Church of Ireland, and that he had had a relationship after his first marriage failed.<\/p>\n<p>The second appeared last Friday in the Belfast-based Nationalist daily Irish News, which suggested that Archdeacon Stevenson&#8217;s consecration was in doubt. It named the woman with whom he had had a relationship, who is now a serving priest in the diocese of Connor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2013\/3-may\/news\/uk\/priest-declines-irish-bishopric-after-press-highlights-his-past\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ven. Leslie Stevenson, who was to have been consecrated this week as Bishop of Meath &#038; Kildare, in the Irish Republic, withdrew on Sunday after a press campaign against him. His decision to step aside followed two newspaper articles.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38115\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,175,409,199,168,325,98,89,435,184,177,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-ireland","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ireland","category-marriage-family","category-media","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38115","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=38115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}