{"id":46051,"date":"2014-09-25T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_welby_expresses_sorrow_at_death_of_stephen_sykes_former_bishop_o\/"},"modified":"2014-09-25T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T16:15:01","slug":"archbishop_welby_expresses_sorrow_at_death_of_stephen_sykes_former_bishop_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46051","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Welby expresses sorrow at death of Stephen Sykes, former bishop of Ely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop Justin had the privilege of getting to know Bishop Stephen in his retirement in the diocese of Durham.<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop said: &#8220;Bishop Stephen\u2019s whole life was dedicated to serving God and his Church. The Church of England is deeply indebted to his ministry of thoughtful scholarship and servant leadership. I am deeply saddened to hear of his death \u201d\u201c not least because it is so sudden for his dear wife Joy, his children and grandchildren \u201d\u201c yet I rejoice at a life lived so well and so wholly in the service of Christ, through many trials and difficulties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/articles.php\/5415\/archbishop-expresses-sorrow-at-death-of-stephen-sykes\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop Justin had the privilege of getting to know Bishop Stephen in his retirement in the diocese of Durham. The Archbishop said: &#8220;Bishop Stephen\u2019s whole life was dedicated to serving God and his Church. The Church of England is deeply<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46051\">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":[36,48,382,74,67,389,635,438,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-justin-welby","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-death-burial-funerals","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46051","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=46051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}