{"id":23361,"date":"2015-10-02T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T18:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23361"},"modified":"2015-10-02T14:25:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T18:25:37","slug":"bishop-michael-bird-spent-over-1-million-suing-anic-parishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-michael-bird-spent-over-1-million-suing-anic-parishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Michael Bird spent over $1 million suing ANiC parishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had not seen the cost to the Diocese of Niagara of its litigation until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/-an-iron-hand-in-a-velvet-glove\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> about Bird appeared in the Anglican Journal. I imagine the diocese views it as money well spent since the sale and demolishing of St. Hilda\u2019s church and rectory alone netted them $2.6 million; and who cares about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+Corinthians+6&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\">1 Corinthians 6:1<\/a> when what really counts is at stake?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-23363\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BishopMichaelBird.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"151\" \/>\u201cJust prior to my becoming bishop, three parishes voted to walk away from the diocese of Niagara,\u201d Bird said in an interview with the <em>Anglican Journal. <\/em>\u201cThere was a subsequent fourth one some months after\u2026that.\u201d What he needed to do, he said, was to draw \u201ca good group of people around the episcopal office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protracted and sometimes rancorous legal battles over the ownership of properties followed. The costs of these battles\u2014which Bird said ran upwards of $1 million\u2014were compounded by the recession of 2008, which drove the diocese into serious financial difficulties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had not seen the cost to the Diocese of Niagara of its litigation until this article about Bird appeared in the Anglican Journal. I imagine the diocese views it as money well spent since the sale and demolishing of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-michael-bird-spent-over-1-million-suing-anic-parishes\/\">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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2058,2111,2257],"class_list":["post-23361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-bishop-michael-bird","tag-diocese-of-niagara","tag-st-hildas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361","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=23361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}