{"id":71732,"date":"2018-05-31T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71732"},"modified":"2018-05-31T07:48:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T11:48:38","slug":"the-bishop-of-norwich-announces-his-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71732","title":{"rendered":"The Bishop of Norwich announces his retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his announcement, Bishop Graham says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I intend to retire as Bishop of Norwich early next year, and will conclude my public ministry at a service in Norwich Cathedral on Sunday 25 November 2018, the final Sunday of the Christian year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will use the following weeks to draw my involvement with many local organisations and charities to a close, and also to disengage from a number of national responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a privilege and honour to serve as Bishop of Norwich for almost 19 years, and Julie and I will find it hard to leave. We are returning to Cornwall (to Truro) but the Diocese of Norwich and her people will always have a big place in our hearts. Thank you for all your support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please pray for us as we prepare for this new chapter in our lives, as well as for those who will be responsible for the appointment of my successor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;May God continue to bless you and this diocese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dioceseofnorwich.org\/article?id=3728\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his announcement, Bishop Graham says: &#8220;I intend to retire as Bishop of Norwich early next year, and will conclude my public ministry at a service in Norwich Cathedral on Sunday 25 November 2018, the final Sunday of the Christian<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71732\">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":[389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71732","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=71732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71735,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71732\/revisions\/71735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}