{"id":86186,"date":"2019-11-05T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86186"},"modified":"2019-11-05T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T10:40:08","slug":"bbc-archbishop-richard-clarke-to-retire-as-church-of-irelands-most-senior-cleric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86186","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Archbishop Richard Clarke to retire as Church of Ireland&#8217;s most senior cleric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Ireland&#8217;s most senior cleric, the Most Revd Richard Clarke, has announced that he will retire in three months&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old Dubliner has served as the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland since December 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that when he took the role he promised himself and his family that he would not stay in post for more than seven years.<\/p>\n<p>He will mark that milestone next month and will step down on 2 February 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-50277987\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Most Rev Richard Clarke to retire as Lord Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland and Metropolitan in the new year. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0FPN4OwkLa\">https:\/\/t.co\/0FPN4OwkLa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Timothy William Ferres (@timothyferres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timothyferres\/status\/1190919886031278080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 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>The Church of Ireland&#8217;s most senior cleric, the Most Revd Richard Clarke, has announced that he will retire in three months&#8217; time. The 70-year-old Dubliner has served as the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland since December 2012.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86186\">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":[409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86186","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=86186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86188,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86186\/revisions\/86188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}