{"id":22923,"date":"2015-05-10T21:47:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T01:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22923"},"modified":"2015-05-11T07:31:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T11:31:14","slug":"the-diocese-of-niagara-has-competition-in-guelph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-niagara-has-competition-in-guelph\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diocese of Niagara has competition in Guelph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Niagara is closing both <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara\/the-diocese-of-niagara-sells-another-church\/\" target=\"_self\">St. Matthias<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara\/another-diocese-of-niagara-church-on-the-brink-of-closing\/\" target=\"_self\">St. David and St. Patrick<\/a> in Guelph. As a counterpoint to the sound of shrivelling, accompanied by revving bulldozers, echoing throughout empty diocesan buildings ANiC is considering opening an Anglican Church in Guelph. Ecclesiastical free enterprise is a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefountainpen.com\/s\/showstory?id=14079\" target=\"_self\">below <\/a>for details:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I met recently with the Reverend Zena Attwood, a minister of the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC). ANiC, she explains, is trying to stem this Anglican hemorrhage by establishing churches that fulfill <em>[sic]<\/em> the goals I&#8217;ve described. Their website (anglicannetwork.ca) shows that in their first five years they have 72 parishes across Canada. ANiC is a member of the conservative Anglican Church in North America, that reckons about a thousand parishes in Canada and the USA and is enthusiastically planting more. Ms Attwood says she&#8217;s creating a core group to start such a parish in Guelph. The group meets on Sunday mornings for Bible discussion and eucharist. Ms Attwood invites inquiries at 519 846 0454 or <span \n                data-original-string='M+yqp6QCiwO8WLWcianrNg==641t2zo3Q6KIDQA\/vv+hhyMogAmKjHMIiyxxsxDbXGlVF4='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>ze<span class=\"apbct-blur\">**********<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">***<\/span>il.com<\/span>. Mr D&#8217;Arcy Luxton is an alternative contact at 519 846 0483 or <span \n                data-original-string='HeZjyst\/eDiyvbp4WYdshg==6414v1M25ZgIxfe6wcxOgzAr0\/hPa5LznKQjIavZqK3Nes='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>da<span class=\"apbct-blur\">**********<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">***<\/span>il.com<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Niagara is closing both St. Matthias and St. David and St. Patrick in Guelph. As a counterpoint to the sound of shrivelling, accompanied by revving bulldozers, echoing throughout empty diocesan buildings ANiC is considering opening an Anglican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-niagara-has-competition-in-guelph\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111,1999,1996,1474],"class_list":["post-22923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara","tag-guelph","tag-st-david-and-st-patrick","tag-st-matthias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22923","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=22923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}