{"id":5419,"date":"2010-09-19T23:19:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T12:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2010-09-20T00:23:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T13:23:35","slug":"general-synod-2010-is-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/09\/19\/general-synod-2010-is-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"General Synod 2010 is underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The General Synod of\u00a0the Anglican Church of Australia is similar to\u00a0national parliament of Australia except for\u00a0its quite limited\u00a0authorities and resources. It is a very loose federation\u00a0of the 23 dioceses,\u00a0meets every 3 years and started yesterday in Melbourne. Tasmania has seven representatives and we are all here happy and smiling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong> to the General Synod is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican.org.au\/Web\/Website.nsf\/content\/Introduction_General_Synod_2010\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presidential Address<\/strong> by Primate is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican.org.au\/Web\/Website.nsf\/files\/Presidential%20Address%20for%20the%2015th%20General%20Synod\/$FILE\/Presidential%20Address%20General%20Synod%202010.pdf\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 The Media Release summarizing his<strong> appeal for unity<\/strong> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican.org.au\/Web\/Website.nsf\/files\/MEDIA%20RELEASE%20-%20Head%20of%20Anglican%20Church%20appeals%20for%20unity\/$FILE\/General%20Synod%20-%20Primate%20Speech%20-%20MEDIA%20RELEASE%20-%20Immediate.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Melbourne Anglican<\/strong> is providing good coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbourne.anglican.com.au\/main.php?pg=news&amp;news_id=38364&amp;s=157\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Rob\u00a0Forsyth&#8217;s pre-synod reflection, <strong>Minefields at this General Synod?<\/strong>,\u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneyanglicans.net\/news\/communion\/minefields_at_this_general_synod\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best parts of General Synod is<strong> meeting\u00a0with friends<\/strong>. It was just so great to give my still young Youth Minister from Glen Waverley a BIG hug \ud83d\ude42 Thanks Dale who s a Bendigo Diocese clergy representative and Rural Dean in that Diocese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Synod of\u00a0the Anglican Church of Australia is similar to\u00a0national parliament of Australia except for\u00a0its quite limited\u00a0authorities and resources. It is a very loose federation\u00a0of the 23 dioceses,\u00a0meets every 3 years and started yesterday in Melbourne. Tasmania has seven &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/09\/19\/general-synod-2010-is-underway\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5423,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions\/5423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}