{"id":11698,"date":"2011-02-03T13:01:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11698"},"modified":"2011-02-03T13:01:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:01:44","slug":"new-dean-installed-in-diocese-of-montreals-christ-church-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/new-dean-installed-in-diocese-of-montreals-christ-church-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"New Dean installed in Diocese of Montreal\u2019s Christ Church Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montreal.anglican.ca\/pdfs\/ma\/MA110201.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (page 4):<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11702\" title=\"03-02-2011 1-16-07 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/03-02-2011-1-16-07-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE NEW DEAN of Christ Church Cathedral, Very Rev. Paul Kennington, right is joined by Bishop Barry Clarke and Rev. Canon Alan Perry, who served as the bishop\u2019s chaplain, as the new dean is applauded after his installation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The diocese had to go all the way to the UK to find a Dean who is in a same-sex civil partnership. The Very Rev. Paul Kennington is hitched to Jonathan Bailey and they both were at <a href=\"http:\/\/home.clara.net\/pkennington\/noticesnew.htm\" target=\"_blank\">St. Mary\u2019s Battersea<\/a> which proclaims, <em>\u201cOpen Church, Open Heart, Open Mind\u201d<\/em> &#8211; one of the lesser known sayings of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan wrote back to their former church:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You will note Paul&#8217;s cassock, with scarlet piping courtesy of Stephen Miles (thanks!) and 39 scarlet buttons sewn on lovingly by Tim, Marie-Ca and Philippa all had a fabulous time in Montreal, and it was wonderful for Paul to have them with him at this big change in his life. It was also lovely for the children to see where Daddy will be working and living<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about the cassock with its 39 darling buttons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here (page 4): THE NEW DEAN of Christ Church Cathedral, Very Rev. Paul Kennington, right is joined by Bishop Barry Clarke and Rev. Canon Alan Perry, who served as the bishop\u2019s chaplain, as the new dean is applauded after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/new-dean-installed-in-diocese-of-montreals-christ-church-cathedral\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[2109],"class_list":["post-11698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-montreal","tag-diocese-of-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}