{"id":49228,"date":"2025-11-23T12:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49228\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T12:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:53:12","slug":"local-lutheran-church-makes-history-with-new-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49228\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Lutheran church makes history with new bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another stained-glass ceiling in the city shatters with the installation of Dr. Katrina Foster as bishop of the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.<\/p>\n<p>She is the first woman and the first lesbian to serve as Bishop in the Metropolitan New York Synod. Bishop Foster will oversee 160 congregations across the region.<\/p>\n<p>She most recently served as pastor of St. John\u2019s Lutheran Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Her ministry has centered on serving LGBTQIA+ people, refugees and the homeless.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Foster spoke with NY1 anchor Rocco Vertuccio on &#8220;Weekends on 1&#8221; Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another stained-glass ceiling in the city shatters with the installation of Dr. Katrina Foster as bishop of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7473,9,24,55,54,56,5252,200,4181],"class_list":{"0":"post-49228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-ctv","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-rocco-vertuccio","15":"tag-vod","16":"tag-weekend-features"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}