{"id":56495,"date":"2016-11-27T21:32:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T21:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/acns_britains_first_syriac_orthodox_cathedral_consecrated\/"},"modified":"2016-11-27T21:32:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T21:32:33","slug":"acns_britains_first_syriac_orthodox_cathedral_consecrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56495","title":{"rendered":"(ACNS) Britain\u2019s first Syriac Orthodox Cathedral consecrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Patriarch of Antioch was in London&#8230; [this past Thursday] for the consecration of Britain\u2019s first Syriac Orthodox Cathedral. The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, was the guest of honour at the service, which was attended by a number of senior Anglicans from the Church of England, including the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres; the Bishop at Lambeth, Nigel Stock; and the Bishop of Ebbsfleet, Jonathan Goodall, the former ecumenical secretary at Lambeth Palace.<\/p>\n<p>The new cathedral of St Thomas is the former Saint Saviour\u2019s Church in Acton, west London \u201d\u201c formerly a chapel for deaf Christians operated by the Royal Association for the Deaf.<\/p>\n<p>The joyous service was marked with sadness as the congregation and a succession of speakers reflected on life for Christians in the homelands of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2016\/11\/britains-first-syriac-orthodox-cathedral-consecrated.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Patriarch of Antioch was in London&#8230; [this past Thursday] for the consecration of Britain\u2019s first Syriac Orthodox Cathedral. The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, was the guest of honour at the service, which was attended by a number of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56495\">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":[48,39,50,42,199,183,203,418,154,108,556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-middle-east","category-orthodox-church","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56495","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=56495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}