{"id":24103,"date":"2008-11-12T15:26:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T19:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/a-newly-elected-metropolitan-f\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T15:26:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T19:26:19","slug":"a-newly-elected-metropolitan-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/a-newly-elected-metropolitan-f\/","title":{"rendered":"A newly elected Metropolitan for the Orthodox Church in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oca.org\/\">Orthodox Church in America<\/a> elected Bishop Jonah as their new Metropolitan bishop (the Primate). Metropolitan Jonah is the 8th and he&#8217;s only a been a bishop for<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Metropoliotan%20Jonah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Metropoliotan Jonah.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Metropoliotan%20Jonah-thumb-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span>10 days!<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1959, received into the Orthodox faith in 1978, ordained a priest in 1995 and ordained a bishop in 2008. He&#8217;s been a monk for the last 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement is published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oca.org\/news\/1693\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Metropolitan Jonah <a href=\"http:\/\/ancientfaith.com\/specials\/podup\/oca15aac\/bishop_jonah_addresses_questions\">address some questions<\/a> regarding faith and matters pertaining to the Church.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eis polla eti, Despota!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Orthodox Church in America elected Bishop Jonah as their new Metropolitan bishop (the Primate). Metropolitan Jonah is the 8th and he&#8217;s only a been a bishop for 10 days! Born in 1959, received into the Orthodox faith in 1978, ordained a priest in 1995 and ordained a bishop in 2008. He&#8217;s been a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/a-newly-elected-metropolitan-f\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A newly elected Metropolitan for the Orthodox Church in America<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}