{"id":86757,"date":"2019-11-20T12:29:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86757"},"modified":"2019-11-20T18:31:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T23:31:33","slug":"irish-times-recent-church-of-ireland-developments-ii-bishop-elect-of-down-and-dromore-confirms-his-support-for-womens-ordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86757","title":{"rendered":"(Irish Times) Recent Church of Ireland Developments (II)&#8211;Bishop-elect of Down and Dromore confirms his support for women&#8217;s ordination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response, a Church of Ireland spokesperson last night said that Archdeacon McClay &#8220;confirmed that he supports both the ordination of women and the consecration of women as bishops and this has been borne out in practice during his ministry&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The election of a bishop is the outcome of a constitutional process whereby an electoral college &#8211; itself composed of elected members &#8211; elects a new bishop after a process of discernment,&#8221; said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The final step is the confirmation of the election by the House of Bishops. This is a legal process and no comment can properly be made in advance of their decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/2019\/11\/20\/news\/bishop-elect-confirms-support-for-women-s-ordination-1770140\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response, a Church of Ireland spokesperson last night said that Archdeacon McClay &#8220;confirmed that he supports both the ordination of women and the consecration of women as bishops and this has been borne out in practice during his ministry&#8221;.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86757\">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-86757","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\/86757","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=86757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86759,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86757\/revisions\/86759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}