{"id":183201,"date":"2015-01-27T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/27\/church-of-england-enters-20th-century\/"},"modified":"2015-01-27T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T00:45:00","slug":"church-of-england-enters-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/27\/church-of-england-enters-20th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of England Enters 20th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/01\/26\/us-religion-anglican-women-idUSKBN0KZ0Z820150126\">appointed its first female Bishop<\/a>.  The American branch of the church, the Episcopal Church, first did so in 1989:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Church of England consecrated its first woman bishop on Monday, the culmination of years of efforts by Church modernizers to overcome opposition from traditionalists &#8211; one of whom briefly shouted a protest during the service.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">More than two decades after the Church allowed women to become priests, 48-year-old mother-of-two the Reverend Libby Lane became Bishop of Stockport in a ceremony at York Minster, a Gothic cathedral in northern England.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The protest came as John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, asked the congregation whether Lane should be consecrated as Bishop.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">As the congregation chorused its approval, a lone man&#8217;s voice shouted above them: &#8220;No, not in the Bible.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">When Sentamu asked the question again, there was no dissent and the ceremony went ahead.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">During the service, which ended in applause, Sentamu and other bishops ceremonially laid their hands on Lane and prayed for her. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is really something that should have happened in the last century, but religious institutions are frequently <b>MANY<\/b> centuries behind the time, so this ain&#8217;t too shabby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has appointed its first female Bishop. The American branch of the church, the Episcopal Church, first did so in 1989: The Church of England consecrated its first woman bishop on Monday, the culmination of years of efforts by Church modernizers to overcome opposition from traditionalists &#8211; one of whom briefly shouted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,1145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-sexism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}