{"id":25505,"date":"2010-04-20T05:12:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T09:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/bishop-william-e-lori-observes-15-years-as-bishop\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T05:12:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T09:12:01","slug":"bishop-william-e-lori-observes-15-years-as-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/bishop-william-e-lori-observes-15-years-as-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop William E. Lori observes 15 years as bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Bp%20Lori%20blessing%20bells%2C%20St%20Philip%20Norwalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bp Lori blessing bells, St Philip Norwalk.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/Bp Lori blessing bells, St Philip Norwalk-thumb-250x165-6213.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"165\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>God, eternal shepherd, You tend Your Church in many ways, and rule us with love. Help Your chosen servant William as pastor for Christ, to watch over Your flock. Help him to be a faithful teacher, a wise administrator, and a holy priest.<\/i><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bishop William Edward Lori, the 4th bishop of Bridgeport, observes his 15th anniversary of consecration as bishop today.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In 1995, James Aloysius&nbsp;Cardinal&nbsp;Hickey with William Wakefield&nbsp;Cardinal&nbsp;Baum and Bishop William George Curlin, consecrated Father William Lori to the order of bishop. He served the Archdiocese of Washington as auxiliary bishop and titular bishop of Bulla.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/William%20Lori.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"William Lori.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/William Lori-thumb-185x215-6215.jpg\" width=\"185\" height=\"215\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>In 2001, Bishop Lori was translated to the Bridgeport Diocese succeeding Archbishop Egan.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lori serves not only the local Church but the Church in the USA by being a member of several committees on the US Catholic Conference of Bishops, as Supreme Chaplain to the Knights of Columbus and various civic boards.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On May 14 Bishop Lori will celebrate 33 years a priest.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We grateful to God for the person of Bishop Lori. <b><i>May God grant him many years!<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God, eternal shepherd, You tend Your Church in many ways, and rule us with love. Help Your chosen servant William as pastor for Christ, to watch over Your flock. Help him to be a faithful teacher, a wise administrator, and a holy priest. Bishop William Edward Lori, the 4th bishop of Bridgeport, observes his 15th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/bishop-william-e-lori-observes-15-years-as-bishop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bishop William E. Lori observes 15 years as bishop<\/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":[35],"tags":[1810,1743,2367],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25505"}],"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=25505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}