{"id":79295,"date":"2019-03-14T12:09:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79295"},"modified":"2019-03-14T21:12:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T01:12:58","slug":"kenyan-kiwi-named-bishop-elect-for-nelson-anglican-diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79295","title":{"rendered":"(Stuff) &#8216;Kenyan Kiwi&#8217; named bishop-elect for Nelson Anglican Diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson&#8217;s new Anglican bishop-elect is a proud &#8220;Kenyan Kiwi&#8221; with a mission to reach out to younger generations.<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Steve Maina-Mwangi was announced as Bishop-elect of the Nelson Diocese this week, replacing Richard Ellena who retired at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan-born clergyman was one of three nominees put forward to the Electoral College last year, along with Michael Brantley of Wellington and Nelson&#8217;s Canon D. Graham O&#8217;Brien.<\/p>\n<p>Maina visited his new diocese on Wednesday, joined by his wife Watiri, to formally accept the position before Senior Bishop of NZ Dioceses Archbishop Philip Richardson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/nelson-mail\/news\/111240861\/kenyan-kiwi--named-bishopelect-for-nelson-anglican-diocese\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8216;Kenyan Kiwi&#8217; named bishop-elect for Nelson Anglican Diocese &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fEFI9T9rpU\">https:\/\/t.co\/fEFI9T9rpU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FuyyMTtz9u\">pic.twitter.com\/FuyyMTtz9u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 E-Soft News Syndicate (@ESoftNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESoftNews\/status\/1105887398959943680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson&#8217;s new Anglican bishop-elect is a proud &#8220;Kenyan Kiwi&#8221; with a mission to reach out to younger generations. Reverend Steve Maina-Mwangi was announced as Bishop-elect of the Nelson Diocese this week, replacing Richard Ellena who retired at the end of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79295\">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":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79295","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=79295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79298,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79295\/revisions\/79298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}