{"id":16211,"date":"2012-04-13T22:12:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T02:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16211"},"modified":"2012-04-13T22:12:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T02:12:28","slug":"diocese-of-new-westminster-to-spend-4-5-million-in-an-attempt-to-revitalise-seized-parishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-new-westminster-to-spend-4-5-million-in-an-attempt-to-revitalise-seized-parishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of New Westminster to spend $4.5 million in an attempt to revitalise seized parishes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having won the court battle for the buildings of St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy, St. Matthias and St. Luke, and St. Matthew\u2019s Abbotsford, the Diocese of New Westminster must decide what to do with them. Since it has no substantial congregations in the buildings, the diocese has concluded that it must \u201cplant three new churches\u201d to \u201cestablish Diocese of New Westminster, Anglican Church of Canada worship\u201d in the parishes. The diocese makes no mention of worshipping Jesus.<\/p>\n

The money is to come from \u201cthe assets of the parishes returned to the diocese by the courts of Canada\u201d along with funding from the diocese.<\/p>\n

In any other circumstance the diocese would quietly close non-viable parishes but, in this case, there would be too much loss of face and Bishop Michael Ingham is prepared to spend $4.5 Million to make sure that doesn\u2019t happen. I expect that it will anyway.<\/p>\n

The whole document is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Note the last sentence: the parishes have a limited time in which to spend $4.5 million to “become vital and sustainable” before they are put on the chopping block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having won the court battle for the buildings of St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy, St. Matthias and St. Luke, and St. Matthew\u2019s Abbotsford, the Diocese of New Westminster must decide what to do with them. Since it has no substantial congregations in … Continue reading →<\/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":[109],"tags":[503,2110],"class_list":["post-16211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-bishop-michael-ingham","tag-diocese-of-new-westminster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16211","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=16211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}