{"id":360660,"date":"2026-01-09T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360660\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:51:08","slug":"diocese-of-oxford-opens-consultation-for-bishop-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360660\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Oxford opens consultation for bishop appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Diocese of Oxford said it is looking to hear people&#8217;s opinions, regardless of their faith, on what they would like to see in a bishop who will be appointed this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The current Bishop of Oxford, Dr Steven Croft, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpq1rvxv0glo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will retire in the summer<\/a> after a decade in the role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The diocese <a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.anglican.org\/consultation\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has opened a consultation, external<\/a> on its website for anyone living, working or worshipping in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Archdeacon of Dorchester, David Tyler, said the diocese wants to hear from people about what they think are the challenges for it and the area it covers, and what qualities a new bishop should have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Diocese of Oxford said it is looking to hear people&#8217;s opinions, regardless of their faith, on what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-360660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}