{"id":4609,"date":"2008-02-15T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/national_post_in_canada_anglican_church_loses_largest_congregation\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T16:46:00","slug":"national_post_in_canada_anglican_church_loses_largest_congregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4609","title":{"rendered":"National Post: In Canada Anglican Church loses largest congregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest Anglican congregation in the country has voted overwhelmingly to leave the Canadian Church and put itself under the authority of a parallel conservative Anglican movement &#8212; a move that may help accelerate a schism and open the way for a nasty legal battle over Church property.<\/p>\n<p>St. John&#8217;s, which has more than 2,000 members in the affluent Vancouver neighbourhood of Shaughnessy, has been at odds with the Diocese of New Westminster, which lets its churches perform same-sex blessings, since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The congregation has withheld financial support from the diocese for the past six years as a protest, but now has taken the radical step of breaking off all together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/story.html?id=308952\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest Anglican congregation in the country has voted overwhelmingly to leave the Canadian Church and put itself under the authority of a parallel conservative Anglican movement &#8212; a move that may help accelerate a schism and open the way<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4609\">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":[36,388,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609","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=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}