{"id":135,"date":"2016-03-01T15:27:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svbcofe.org.uk\/horton\/?page_id=135"},"modified":"2025-04-18T09:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T09:28:17","slug":"our-new-rector-david-bowers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/svbcofe.org.uk\/horton\/our-new-rector-david-bowers","title":{"rendered":"OUR NEW RECTOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Revd. Christine Butler was officially announced as our new Rector on Sunday 2nd July 2023. Bishop Rachel and she was licensed in St. John&#8217;s Church, Chipping Sodbury on the evening of Wednesday October 4th 2023 at 7.00pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A short message from our new Rector &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8216;Greetings from Somerset. I am excited about joining you all in October and just wanted to briefly introduce myself.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>My name is Chris and I was ordained in Bath and Wells in 2010 and have been in that Diocese ever since.\u00a0 I am looking forward to joining the Gloucestershire Diocese and throwing myself into Church, town and village life.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>At home I live with my two dogs, Leah and Charlie so I would welcome any tips for local dog walks.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Before I was ordained, I lived in Bath for many years where I worked for the Ministry of Defence. It will be lovely to reacquaint myself with the area. I am also a sports fan and a keen supporter of Bath Rugby, if you are a Gloucester fan please do not hold that against me.&#8217;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Revd. Christine Butler was officially announced as our new Rector on Sunday 2nd July 2023. Bishop Rachel and she was licensed in St. John&#8217;s Church, Chipping Sodbury on the evening of Wednesday October 4th 2023 at 7.00pm. A short message from our new Rector &#8211; &#8216;Greetings from Somerset. I am excited about joining you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/svbcofe.org.uk\/horton\/our-new-rector-david-bowers\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OUR NEW RECTOR<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-135","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svbcofe.org.uk\/horton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svbcofe.org.uk\/horton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svbcofe.org.uk\/horton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svbcofe.org.uk\/horton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svbcofe.org.uk\/horton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/svbcofe.org.uk\/horton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/svbcofe.org.uk\/horton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svbcofe.org.uk\/horton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}