{"id":25884,"date":"2018-05-02T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=25884"},"modified":"2018-05-02T11:43:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:43:50","slug":"bishop-michael-bird-to-be-rector-of-ottawa-area-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-michael-bird-to-be-rector-of-ottawa-area-parish\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Michael Bird to be rector of Ottawa area parish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bird starts his new job on June 1<sup>st<\/sup>. He will no longer be a bishop but incumbent of an area parish \u2013 a group of churches that are too small to employ their own rector, so they share one.<\/p>\n<p>I am unable to dispel the feeling that there is more to this odd move than meets the eye.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-25527\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/bird-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"170\" \/>From <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.anglican.ca\/new-area-parish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bishop John is pleased to announce that a new Area Parish (comprised of Ascension, Killaloe; All Saint, Petawawa; Epiphany, Barry\u2019s Bay; Holy Trinity, Madawaska; Holy Trinity, Pembroke; St. Anthony, Whitney; St. Augustine, Beachburg; St. George\u2019s, Alice; St. John\u2019s, Eganville; St. John\u2019s, Tramore; St. Patrick\u2019s, Stafford; St. Paul\u2019s, Cobden; St. Stephen\u2019s, Micksburg; and St. Thomas, Rankin) will come into being on June 01, 2018. The following clergy have been appointed to serve in this new ministry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Rt. Rev. Michael Bird, to be Incumbent; effective June 01, 2018<\/li>\n<li>The Rev. Matthew Brown, to be Associate Incumbent, effective June 01, 2018<\/li>\n<li>The Rev. Susan Clifford, to be Associate Incumbent, effective June 01, 2018<\/li>\n<li>The Rev. Gillian Hoyer, to be Associate Incumbent, effective June 01, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bird starts his new job on June 1st. He will no longer be a bishop but incumbent of an area parish \u2013 a group of churches that are too small to employ their own rector, so they share one. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-michael-bird-to-be-rector-of-ottawa-area-parish\/\">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":[110,112],"tags":[2058],"class_list":["post-25884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","category-diocese-of-ottawa","tag-bishop-michael-bird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25884","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=25884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}