{"id":59309,"date":"2017-04-25T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T20:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59309"},"modified":"2017-04-25T17:52:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:52:44","slug":"aj-iraqi-refugee-becomes-anglican-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59309","title":{"rendered":"(AJ) Iraqi refugee becomes Anglican priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Ayoob Shawkat Adwar, a priest in the Chaldean Catholic Church, was received as an Anglican priest at a ceremony in Surrey, B.C. March 26.<\/p>\n<p>The event was a \u201csmall but significant piece of history,\u201d says Archdeacon Stephen Rowe, rector of the Anglican Parish of the Church of the Epiphany in Surrey, since he is thought to be the first Chaldean priest in history to have become a member of the Anglican clergy.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Mosul, Iraq\u2014heartland of the Chaldean church\u2014Adwar was ordained as a Chaldean priest in 2008. His family began to arrive in Canada about five years ago, and Adwar himself followed in 2014, when he was granted refugee status.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/iraqi-refugee-becomes-anglican-priest\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Ayoob Shawkat Adwar, a priest in the Chaldean Catholic Church, was received as an Anglican priest at a ceremony in Surrey, B.C. March 26. The event was a \u201csmall but significant piece of history,\u201d says Archdeacon Stephen Rowe, rector<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59309\">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":[388,557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59309","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=59309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59310,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59309\/revisions\/59310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}