{"id":57115,"date":"2017-01-20T03:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T03:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/historic_installation_of_lay_canons_in_st_annes_cathedral_in_belfast\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T03:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T03:00:21","slug":"historic_installation_of_lay_canons_in_st_annes_cathedral_in_belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57115","title":{"rendered":"Historic installation of Lay Canons in St Anne\u2019s Cathedral in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History was made in St Anne\u2019s Cathedral on Sunday January 15 when the Cathedral\u2019s first Lay Canons were installed.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Myrtle Kerr and Mr Robert Kay were presented by the Archdeacons of Belfast and Down respectively and after the reading of the Mandate by the Cathedral Registrar, the Dean of Belfast, the Very Rev John Mann, led each new Canon to their designated seat.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of Lay Canons to Church of Ireland Cathedrals only became possible in 2010. The Constitution allows St Anne\u2019s Cathedral to appoint up to three Lay Canons from Connor Diocese and up to three from Down &#038; Dromore Diocese. Mrs Kerr and Mr Kay are the first to be appointed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland.anglican.org\/news\/6888\/historic-installation-of-lay-canons\">Read it all<\/a> and nejpy the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History was made in St Anne\u2019s Cathedral on Sunday January 15 when the Cathedral\u2019s first Lay Canons were installed. Mrs Myrtle Kerr and Mr Robert Kay were presented by the Archdeacons of Belfast and Down respectively and after the reading<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57115\">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":[36,48,50,74,409,199,325,437,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-ireland","category-england-uk","category-ireland","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57115","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=57115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}