{"id":686,"date":"2017-03-23T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/?p=686"},"modified":"2017-03-23T10:12:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:12:05","slug":"notice-of-episcopal-transition-bishop-howard-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/2017\/03\/23\/notice-of-episcopal-transition-bishop-howard-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice of Episcopal Transition &#8211; Bishop Howard Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tMarch 22, 2017\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/files\/2017\/03\/bishop-hthomas.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px;height: 409px;border-width: 0px;border-style: solid;margin: 5px;float: right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/files\/2017\/03\/bishop-hthomas.jpg 771w, https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/files\/2017\/03\/bishop-hthomas-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/files\/2017\/03\/bishop-hthomas-768x1046.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/files\/2017\/03\/bishop-hthomas-752x1024.jpg 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/>Dear Saints:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis correspondence is being sent at the request of our leader, Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake. &nbsp;It is with great regret that I inform you of the passing of&nbsp;<em><strong>Bishop Howard Thomas, Auxiliary Bishop, Michigan Western&nbsp;Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;under the leadership of General Board Member and Prelate, Bishop Nathaniel W. Wells, Jr. &nbsp;The Thomas Family and the jurisdiction are in need of our fervent prayers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/in-memorium\/\">Arrangements can be found here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLet us be in fervent prayer for the family during this most difficult time. If I can assist you further concerning this matter, please do not hesitate to call my office at 501.712.0048.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSanctifying the Leader, I Am,\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBishop Robert G. Rudolph, Jr.<br \/>\n\t<em>Adjutant General<\/em><br \/>\n\t<em>Church Of God In Christ, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 22, 2017 Dear Saints: This correspondence is being sent at the request of our leader, Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake. &nbsp;It is with great regret that I inform you of the passing of&nbsp;Bishop Howard Thomas, Auxiliary Bishop, Michigan Western&nbsp;Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction&nbsp;under the leadership of General Board Member and Prelate, Bishop Nathaniel W. Wells, Jr. &nbsp;The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjutanct","category-1","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}