{"id":48103,"date":"2015-01-27T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T20:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_church_of_england_consecrates_first_woman_bishop\/"},"modified":"2015-01-27T20:53:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T20:53:59","slug":"reuters_church_of_england_consecrates_first_woman_bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48103","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Church of England consecrates first woman bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England consecrated its first woman bishop on Monday, the culmination of years of efforts by Church modernisers to overcome opposition from traditionalists &#8211; one of whom briefly shouted a protest during the service.<\/p>\n<p>More than two decades after the Church allowed women to become priests, 48-year-old mother-of-two the Reverend Libby Lane became Bishop of Stockport in a ceremony at York Minster, a Gothic cathedral in northern England.<\/p>\n<p>The protest came as John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, asked the congregation whether Lane should be consecrated as Bishop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/01\/26\/uk-religion-anglican-women-idUKKBN0KZ0YB20150126\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England consecrated its first woman bishop on Monday, the culmination of years of efforts by Church modernisers to overcome opposition from traditionalists &#8211; one of whom briefly shouted a protest during the service. More than two decades<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48103\">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":[36,39,74,389,635,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48103","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=48103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}