{"id":57092,"date":"2017-01-17T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/geoff_pearson_anglican_bishop_of_lancaster_announces_his_retirement\/"},"modified":"2017-01-17T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T18:01:09","slug":"geoff_pearson_anglican_bishop_of_lancaster_announces_his_retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57092","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Pearson, Anglican Bishop of Lancaster, announces his retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Bishop of Lancaster, Rt Rev. Geoff Pearson, has announced his retirement after nearly 43 years of ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Geoff, 65, who has held the Suffragan Bishop role for more than a decade, said: \u201cI have a mixture of feelings as this announcement is made. There is a real sadness about leaving colleagues and being part of the momentum that is building around the Diocesan Vision 2026. \u201cIt has been a huge privilege to work in Lancashire with many lovely clergy and people \u201d\u00a6 but I still have six months left to focus particularly on the Vision agenda and mission opportunities.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancasterguardian.co.uk\/news\/anglican-bishop-of-lancaster-announces-his-retirement-1-8336280\">Read it all<\/a> from the Lancaster Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Bishop of Lancaster, Rt Rev. Geoff Pearson, has announced his retirement after nearly 43 years of ministry. Bishop Geoff, 65, who has held the Suffragan Bishop role for more than a decade, said: \u201cI have a mixture of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57092\">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":[36,74,389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57092","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\/57092","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=57092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}