{"id":64124,"date":"2017-10-05T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T11:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64124"},"modified":"2017-10-05T06:12:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T10:12:33","slug":"christian-today-gavin-ashenden-was-consecrated-a-bishop-in-secret-four-years-ago-while-still-a-chaplain-to-the-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64124","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Gavin Ashenden was consecrated a bishop in &#8216;secret&#8217; four years ago \u2013 while still a chaplain to the Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin Ashendenen, the Anglo-Catholic priest who was a chaplain to the Queen from 2008 until he resigned earlier this year, was consecrated a bishop in 2013 while he was still a chaplain to the Queen, Christian Today can reveal.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Gavin Ashenden\" href=\"https:\/\/ashenden.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashenden\u00a0<\/a>was consecrated in secret as a missionary bishop to the UK by Archbishop Theodore Casimes of the Christian Episcopal Church, which is not part of the Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p>Although the consecration\u00a0<a title=\"Ashenden consecrated bishop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/former.queens.chaplain.gavin.ashenden.consecrated.as.missionary.bishop\/114720.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was announced earlier this month<\/a>\u00a0by Archbishop Casimes, in fact it took place four years ago, a year after he ended his 20 years service as a member of the General Synod of the Church of England and after he took a post-retirement post at St Martin de Gouray in Gorey, Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>He currently lives in Shropshire and resigned his orders this year as a Church of England priest in protest at what he sees as the church&#8217;s liberalising trend. Earlier, he had left his post as Queen&#8217;s chaplain in January following a row over a Quran reading in Glasgow Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/gavin.ashenden.was.consecrated.a.bishop.in.secret.four.years.ago.while.still.a.chaplain.to.the.queen\/115342.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin Ashendenen, the Anglo-Catholic priest who was a chaplain to the Queen from 2008 until he resigned earlier this year, was consecrated a bishop in 2013 while he was still a chaplain to the Queen, Christian Today can reveal. Ashenden\u00a0was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64124\">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":[389,168,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64124","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=64124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64126,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64124\/revisions\/64126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}