{"id":41333,"date":"2013-12-01T23:16:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T23:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vancouver_sun_tec_priest_melissa_skelton_elected_bishop_of_vancouver-area_a\/"},"modified":"2013-12-01T23:16:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T23:16:13","slug":"vancouver_sun_tec_priest_melissa_skelton_elected_bishop_of_vancouver-area_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41333","title":{"rendered":"(Vancouver Sun) TEC priest Melissa Skelton elected bishop of Vancouver-area Anglican diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The female American priest chosen as the new bishop for the Vancouver-area Anglican diocese says she attracts people to her church who have been \u201cwounded\u201d\u009d by other Christian traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Melissa Skelton, who leads St. Paul&#8217;s Episcopal parish in Seattle, Washington, was elected a bishop in Canada on the third ballot at a vote held Saturday at Christ Church Anglican Cathedral in downtown Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Skelton will replace retired Anglican bishop Michael Ingham, who was at the centre of a storm within the 60-million-member worldwide Anglican communion when he became the first Anglican bishop to formally support the blessing of same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/life\/Melissa+Skelton+elected+bishop+Vancouver+area+Anglican+diocese\/9232853\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The female American priest chosen as the new bishop for the Vancouver-area Anglican diocese says she attracts people to her church who have been \u201cwounded\u201d\u009d by other Christian traditions. Rev. Melissa Skelton, who leads St. Paul&#8217;s Episcopal parish in Seattle,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41333\">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":[36,48,39,50,388,74,207,66,435,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41333","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-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333","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=41333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}