{"id":6795,"date":"2008-06-22T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_some_leading_c_of_e_bishops_not_to_attend_lambeth_conference_over\/"},"modified":"2008-06-22T02:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T02:13:00","slug":"telegraph_some_leading_c_of_e_bishops_not_to_attend_lambeth_conference_over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6795","title":{"rendered":"Telegraph: Some Leading C of E bishops not to attend Lambeth Conference over gay clergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that marks a significant split in the established Church, at least three bishops, including the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, will decline an invitation from Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to attend the Lambeth Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Up to six more bishops are understood to be considering similar action because of Dr Williams&#8217;s decision to allow controversial figures to be at the gathering of worldwide Anglican bishops, which meets only once in 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The boycott will intensify the row over gay clergy, which was reignited when The Sunday Telegraph disclosed last week that two gay priests had exchanged vows in a version of the marriage service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/2170886\/Leading-Anglican-bishops-to-boycott-Lambeth-Conference-over-gay-clergy.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that marks a significant split in the established Church, at least three bishops, including the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, will decline an invitation from Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to attend<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6795\">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":[36,74,389,635,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-lambeth-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795","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=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}