{"id":48655,"date":"2015-03-03T03:18:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T03:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_of_lichfield_40_years_seem_a_good_stint\/"},"modified":"2015-03-03T03:18:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T03:18:33","slug":"bishop_of_lichfield_40_years_seem_a_good_stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48655","title":{"rendered":"Bishop of Lichfield: &#34;40 years seem a good stint&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Right Reverend Jonathan Gledhill is today announcing his retirement as Bishop of Lichfield.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Jonathan, 66, formally announced his retirement at a meeting of the College of Canons at Lichfield Cathedral this afternoon. He will leave office in September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In a video message, Bishop Jonathan said: \u201cForty years of ministry seem a good stint to Jane and me.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with great mixed feelings that I make this announcement. But Jane and I know that, much as we will find it difficult to leave your love and prayers, it would not be right to continue much longer.\u201d\u009d<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/s34AHPNSkfE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lichfield.anglican.org\/ournews\/40-years-seem-a-good-stint\">Read and watch it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Right Reverend Jonathan Gledhill is today announcing his retirement as Bishop of Lichfield. Bishop Jonathan, 66, formally announced his retirement at a meeting of the College of Canons at Lichfield Cathedral this afternoon. He will leave office in September<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48655\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,74,389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48655","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}