{"id":49390,"date":"2015-04-16T01:20:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T01:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/s-_australias_first_aboriginal_anglican_bishop-to_focus_on_reconciliation_e\/"},"modified":"2015-04-16T01:20:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T01:20:38","slug":"s-_australias_first_aboriginal_anglican_bishop-to_focus_on_reconciliation_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49390","title":{"rendered":"S. Australia&#39;s first Aboriginal Anglican bishop.to focus on reconciliation efforts in new role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Australia&#8217;s first Aboriginal Anglican bishop says he plans to use his new role to focus on reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Christopher McLeod, who is of Gurindji descent and whose mother was a member of the Stolen Generations, has been ordained as Assistant Bishop at St Peter&#8217;s Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>He has most recently served as the rector at St Jude&#8217;s Church at Brighton, and becomes the only Aboriginal bishop currently serving in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment is considered a landmark for the church because Reverend McLeod is only the third Anglican bishop of Aboriginal descent in Australia&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-04-11\/new-assistant-bishop-to-connect-with-aboriginal-people\/6385588\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Australia&#8217;s first Aboriginal Anglican bishop says he plans to use his new role to focus on reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Reverend Christopher McLeod, who is of Gurindji descent and whose mother was a member of the Stolen<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49390\">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":[36,39,50,395,74,204,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49390","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=49390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}