{"id":49689,"date":"2015-05-05T16:53:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T16:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reform_reform_chairman_made_bishop_of_maidstone\/"},"modified":"2015-05-05T16:53:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T16:53:38","slug":"reform_reform_chairman_made_bishop_of_maidstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49689","title":{"rendered":"[Reform] Reform Chairman made Bishop of Maidstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reform is delighted that their Chairman, Rev\u2019d Preb Rod Thomas, has been appointed to the revived See of Maidstone. Rod has served as a senior officer of Reform for nearly two decades. In that time he has been unswerving in his commitment to the principles set out in the Reform Covenant. But for Rod\u2019s passionate advocacy of conservative evangelical Anglicanism the Church of England would have been much impoverished.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nDirector of Reform, Susie Leafe said, \u201cThe members of Reform are all too aware that this is an immense undertaking and we will be in prayer for Rod as he seeks to establish the necessary working arrangements to allow conservative evangelicals to flourish throughout the country.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reform.org.uk\/news\/src\/archive\/05-2015\/title\/reform-media-statement-may-5th-2015-reform-chairman-made-bishop-of-maidstone\">Read it all<\/a> and the official announcement is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/suffragan-bishop-of-maidstone-roderick-charles-howell-thomas\">here<\/a> and the blurb from the Church of England is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2015\/05\/suffragan-bishop-of-maidstone-announced.aspx\">here<\/a> and Lambeth Palace <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/articles.php\/5545\/suffragan-bishop-of-maidstone-announced\">here<\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reform is delighted that their Chairman, Rev\u2019d Preb Rod Thomas, has been appointed to the revived See of Maidstone. Rod has served as a senior officer of Reform for nearly two decades. In that time he has been unswerving in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49689\">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-49689","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\/49689","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=49689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}