{"id":93262,"date":"2020-05-27T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T20:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93262"},"modified":"2020-05-27T19:57:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T23:57:28","slug":"the-former-bishop-of-chelmsford-stepehn-cottrell-reflects-on-his-near-decade-of-serving-east-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93262","title":{"rendered":"The Former Bishop of Chelmsford, Stepehn Cottrell, reflects on his near decade of serving east London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The right reverend left his role as Bishop of Chelmsford over Easter and is due to become Archbishop of York in July &#8211; the second highest role in the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>But the coronavirus restrictions have left him unable to say a proper goodbye to the people of east London, something that disappoints him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it\u2019s been a kind of double lockdown &#8211; the lockdown we are all experiencing but a lot of the things I had been doing have been taken away altogether. So it\u2019s a kind of double limbo for me at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRites of passage are important and it\u2019s hard to say goodbye without the chance to say goodbye but there\u2019s so much I\u2019ll miss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newhamrecorder.co.uk\/news\/ex-bishop-of-chelmsford-reflects-on-time-serving-east-london-1-6666979\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The former Bishop of Chelmsford talks about his experiences transitioning to his new role as the Archbishop of York and having to leave behind the area under coronavirus. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YekGg9cUdC\">https:\/\/t.co\/YekGg9cUdC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ilford Recorder (@IlfordRecorder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlfordRecorder\/status\/1265161793082662912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2020<\/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 right reverend left his role as Bishop of Chelmsford over Easter and is due to become Archbishop of York in July &#8211; the second highest role in the Church of England. But the coronavirus restrictions have left him unable<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93262\">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":[389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93262","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=93262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93265,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93262\/revisions\/93265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}