{"id":28632,"date":"2020-12-01T21:45:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T02:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=28632"},"modified":"2020-12-01T21:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T02:45:33","slug":"church-mourns-bishop-geoffrey-peddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-mourns-bishop-geoffrey-peddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Church mourns Bishop Geoffrey Peddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/aj-dec2020_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28633\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Anglican-East-Bishop-Geoff-Peddle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Anglican-East-Bishop-Geoff-Peddle.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Anglican-East-Bishop-Geoff-Peddle-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Anglican-East-Bishop-Geoff-Peddle-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Anglican-East-Bishop-Geoff-Peddle-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>The church is mourning the loss of Geoffrey Peddle, bishop of the diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, who died Oct. 8. \u201cIt is with a very heavy heart that I share with you the sad news that our beloved Bishop, The Rt. Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Curtis Ralph Peddle, passed away suddenly today,\u201d diocesan administrator Archdeacon Sam Rose said in an Oct. 8 note posted to the Cathedral Messenger Online, an electronic newsletter from the diocese\u2019s Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. \u201cWhile this is very painful for us to process at this moment, we are comforted by the grace of God which truly passes all understanding.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Peddle was provost and vice-chancellor of Queen\u2019s College when he was elected. As bishop, he became known for voicing support for a number of social causes, including same-sex marriage and the rights of prison inmates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is not mentioned in the article is that Bishop Geoffrey Peddle committed suicide. Surely it would be better for the church to be honest and open about such things rather than pretend they haven&#8217;t happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The church is mourning the loss of Geoffrey Peddle, bishop of the diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, who died Oct. 8. \u201cIt is with a very heavy heart that I share with you the sad news that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-mourns-bishop-geoffrey-peddle\/\">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":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[2652],"class_list":["post-28632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-eastern-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-bishop-geoffrey-peddle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28632","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=28632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}