{"id":56745,"date":"2016-12-19T03:05:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T03:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/aj_quebec_anglican_bishop_goes_on_medical_leave\/"},"modified":"2016-12-19T03:05:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T03:05:42","slug":"aj_quebec_anglican_bishop_goes_on_medical_leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56745","title":{"rendered":"(AJ) Quebec Anglican bishop goes on medical leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 13, Bishop Dennis Drainville, of the diocese of Quebec, announced that he will \u201cstep aside\u201d\u009d from episcopal ministry for an unspecified period of time due to health reasons, and that Coadjutor Bishop Bruce Myers will serve as commissary in the interim.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to his diocese, Drainville, 62, says that \u201cas the months have passed it has been increasingly difficult to continue to put in the hours and continue travelling throughout the diocese,\u201d\u009d and that his doctor has recommended he take this action.<\/p>\n<p>While the letter does not disclose the nature of Drainville\u2019s medical leave, in an interview with the Anglican Journal earlier in December, he said that he was suffering from an undiagnosed degenerative illness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/quebec-bishop-goes-on-medical-leave\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 13, Bishop Dennis Drainville, of the diocese of Quebec, announced that he will \u201cstep aside\u201d\u009d from episcopal ministry for an unspecified period of time due to health reasons, and that Coadjutor Bishop Bruce Myers will serve as commissary<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56745\">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":[36,48,39,388,74,104,435,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-health-medicine","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56745","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=56745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}