{"id":71982,"date":"2018-06-07T17:21:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T21:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71982"},"modified":"2018-06-07T18:56:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T22:56:57","slug":"two-new-bishops-elected-in-the-scottish-episcopal-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71982","title":{"rendered":"Two New Bishops elected in the Scottish Episcopal Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Rev Canon Ian Paton<\/strong>\u00a0has today been elected as the new Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld &amp; Dunblane, and\u00a0<strong>The Very Rev Andrew Swift<\/strong>\u00a0has been elected as the new Bishop of Brechin.<\/p>\n<p>The election of the new bishop was carried out by an Electoral Synod in each Diocese (comprising representatives of clergy and lay members from the Diocese). The Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Most Rev Mark Strange, says \u201cI am delighted that the Electoral Synods have elected Ian Paton and Andrew Swift as their new Bishop in each of their Dioceses and I thank the members of the Electoral Synod for the work that they have done in this process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to welcoming both Ian and Andrew to the College of Bishops and to working with them, and I am sure that the Diocese of\u00a0St Andrews, Dunkeld &amp; Dunblane and the Diocese of Brechin will look forward to their respective leadership and inspiration in the future development of Mission and Ministry across each of the Dioceses. I ask that we hold them both in prayer as they each move to a new stage of their ministry and prepare for their consecration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotland.anglican.org\/new-bishops-elected\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev Canon Ian Paton\u00a0has today been elected as the new Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld &amp; Dunblane, and\u00a0The Very Rev Andrew Swift\u00a0has been elected as the new Bishop of Brechin. The election of the new bishop was carried out<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71982\">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":[398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scottish-episcopal-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71982","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=71982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71984,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71982\/revisions\/71984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}