{"id":26822,"date":"2012-01-19T06:40:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T10:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/william-charles-skurla-elected\/"},"modified":"2012-01-19T06:40:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T10:40:41","slug":"william-charles-skurla-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/william-charles-skurla-elected\/","title":{"rendered":"William Charles Skurla elected 8th bishop of the Ruthenian Eparchy, Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/WC%20Skurla.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WC Skurla.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/01\/WC Skurla-thumb-172x241-10893.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"241\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Pope Benedict XVI elected William Charles Skurla, 55, as the 8th bishop (and 5th Archeparch) of the Pittsburgh Ruthenian Church, until now, the Eparch of Passaic (NJ).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Archeparch-designate has been a priest for nearly 25 years and a bishop for nearly 10. This is third eparchy to have been elected to lead. He succeeds Archbishop Basil who died on June 10, 2010.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archeparchy.org\/\">Archeparchy of Pittsburgh<\/a> is a See of nearly 60,000 souls (2010 stats).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>May God grant Archbishop William many years.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI elected William Charles Skurla, 55, as the 8th bishop (and 5th Archeparch) of the Pittsburgh Ruthenian Church, until now, the Eparch of Passaic (NJ). The Archeparch-designate has been a priest for nearly 25 years and a bishop for nearly 10. This is third eparchy to have been elected to lead. He succeeds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/william-charles-skurla-elected\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">William Charles Skurla elected 8th bishop of the Ruthenian Eparchy, Pittsburgh<\/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":[1712,1907],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26822"}],"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=26822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}