{"id":8435,"date":"2008-09-13T20:15:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T20:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_duncan_to_skip_house_of_bishops_meeting\/"},"modified":"2008-09-13T20:15:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T20:15:47","slug":"bishop_duncan_to_skip_house_of_bishops_meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8435","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Duncan to Skip House of Bishops Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh has written to every member of the House of Bishops informing them that he will not attend the special meeting of the House of Bishops in Salt Lake City next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the previously announced reasons for your gathering is to consider a charge brought against me by five priests and 16 lay people,\u201d\u009d Bishop Duncan wrote. \u201cThe proper forum to determine whether I have violated the constitution and canons would be a church trial, as I am a bishop of this church.\u201d\u009d He added that by instead pursuing \u201cthe abandonment shortcut,\u201d\u009d  \u201ceven the specific protections of that course of action have been ruled not to apply.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingchurch.org\/news\/news-updates\/2008\/9\/12\/bishop-duncan-to-skip-hob-meeting\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitanglican.org\/news\/local\/duncanpastoral091308\">The full letter from Bishop Duncan is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh has written to every member of the House of Bishops informing them that he will not attend the special meeting of the House of Bishops in Salt Lake City next week. \u201cOne of the previously<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8435\">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":[36,66,372,376,638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435","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=8435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}