{"id":14099,"date":"2011-09-06T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T15:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14099"},"modified":"2011-09-06T11:11:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T15:11:31","slug":"michael-thompson-appointed-general-secretary-of-the-anglican-church-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/michael-thompson-appointed-general-secretary-of-the-anglican-church-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Thompson appointed General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancommunion.org\/acns\/digest\/index.cfm\/2011\/9\/6\/Michael-Thompson-appointed-General-Secretary\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14100\" title=\"MikeT\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MikeT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ven. Dr. Michael Thompson will serve as the Anglican Church of Canada&#8217;s next General Secretary, beginning Nov. 1, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Ven. Dr. Michael Thompson, rector of St. Jude&#8217;s Anglican Church in Oakville, Ont., will serve as the Anglican Church of Canada&#8217;s next General Secretary, starting Nov. 1. Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate, announced Mr. Thompson&#8217;s appointment to Church House staff on Sept. 6.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am confident, friends, that Michael is the person for this position at this time,&#8221; wrote the Primate in an email to COGS members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m confident of the same thing. He appeared at St. Hilda\u2019s one Sunday morning just before we voted to separate from the Diocese of Niagara. He was a likeable fellow who confided that he rather admired the certainty of our faith \u2013 a certainty which he couldn\u2019t share. What more fitting person to hold the post of Secretary General than one whose uncertainty of what he believes matches that of his employer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The Ven. Dr. Michael Thompson will serve as the Anglican Church of Canada&#8217;s next General Secretary, beginning Nov. 1, 2011. The Ven. Dr. Michael Thompson, rector of St. Jude&#8217;s Anglican Church in Oakville, Ont., will serve as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/michael-thompson-appointed-general-secretary-of-the-anglican-church-of-canada\/\">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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1329],"class_list":["post-14099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-rev-michael-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099","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=14099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}