{"id":25658,"date":"2018-01-10T22:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T03:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=25658"},"modified":"2018-01-10T22:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T03:02:22","slug":"an-exodus-of-bishops-from-the-anglican-church-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-exodus-of-bishops-from-the-anglican-church-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"An exodus of bishops from the Anglican Church of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the bishops on their way out: Niagara\u2019s Michael Bird; Toronto\u2019s Colin Johnson; Primate Fred Hiltz; and now, Rupert\u2019s Land\u2019s Donald Phillips.<\/p>\n

They are all liberal and heartily endorse same-sex marriage. Why have they all decided to leave now? Do they know something we don\u2019t about the fate of the ACoC? Are they concerned that there is no future for them in the ACoC because they are all heterosexual? Have they reached that stage in life when ambition yields to the sad realisation that all the ecclesiastical mayhem that can possibly be inflicted on the Anglican Communion in one lifetime has already been wrought during their climb up the greasy clerical pole?<\/p>\n

We may never know but at least it is satisfying to bid them adieu.<\/p>\n

\"\"From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Diocese of Rupert\u2019s Land Bishop Donald Phillips plans to retire in the fall after the election of a coadjutor bishop this June, saying that it\u2019s important to \u201cgo out on a high note.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phillips, who is 63, says the decision was \u201cmore personal than diocesan,\u201d coming as it did after his wife\u2019s retirement last summer. \u201cI\u2019m thinking, 18, 18 and a half years\u2014that\u2019s a good long run.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Moving forward, Phillips sees the challenge of maintaining stipendiary ordained ministry as pressing for the diocese of Rupert\u2019s Land and the Anglican Church of Canada. \u201cIncreasingly now, we\u2019re having parishes that can\u2019t afford to close, but they can\u2019t afford a full-time priest\u2026the way that [clergy] are deployed will hopefully start to change.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are the bishops on their way out: Niagara\u2019s Michael Bird; Toronto\u2019s Colin Johnson; Primate Fred Hiltz; and now, Rupert\u2019s Land\u2019s Donald Phillips. They are all liberal and heartily endorse same-sex marriage. Why have they all decided to leave now? … 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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2493],"tags":[2357],"class_list":["post-25658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-ruperts-land","tag-bishop-donald-phillips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25658","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=25658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}