{"id":54352,"date":"2016-05-13T00:15:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T00:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cen_nz_cathedral_dean_suspended_25_years_after_marital_indiscretion\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T00:15:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T00:15:26","slug":"cen_nz_cathedral_dean_suspended_25_years_after_marital_indiscretion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54352","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) NZ Cathedral Dean suspended 25 years after marital indiscretion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A diocesan spokesman said the decision was \u201c the outcome of a church disciplinary process for a historic matter of behaviour, unrelated to the Diocese of Waiapu, deemed to be a breach of church canons, rather than illegal, and not expected of a priest in the Anglican Church.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>However, Dean Godfrey told local newspapers his indiscretion had been no secret. He had confessed to his wife and his bishop in Australia at the time of his misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy feeling is that there hasn\u2019t been due process or natural justice in terms of the process of dismissal,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>However the diocese responded that while the Australian diocese may have known of the affair, \u201cit is the first that his bishop, now in New Zealand, has heard of it\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchnewspaper.com\/44652\/archives\">Read it all<\/a> (may require subscription).<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diocesan spokesman said the decision was \u201c the outcome of a church disciplinary process for a historic matter of behaviour, unrelated to the Diocese of Waiapu, deemed to be a breach of church canons, rather than illegal, and not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54352\">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":[36,48,39,399,74,168,98,125,435,184,177,129,112,34,126,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-provinces","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-men","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-women","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54352","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=54352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}