{"id":30639,"date":"2026-05-24T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=30639"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:59:11","slug":"attend-the-valediction-of-the-bishop-of-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=30639","title":{"rendered":"Attend the Valediction of the Bishop of Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are just ten days to go before the farewell service for Bishop Steven takes place at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford \u2013 and there is still time to reserve your place at&nbsp;the 31 May event&nbsp;(start time 5pm).<\/p>\n<p>In this special service, Bishop Steven will lay down his crozier as he begins his retirement. Places on the day will be very limited and you can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/anglican.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=14501d5eebc3e98fa3015a290&amp;id=8b20566d40&amp;e=2732fe43d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">book your tickets here.<\/a>&nbsp;If you cannot make the service in person, then you can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/anglican.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=14501d5eebc3e98fa3015a290&amp;id=618fc43f89&amp;e=2732fe43d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">watch the service online.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are just ten days to go before the farewell service for Bishop Steven takes place at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford \u2013 and there is still time to reserve your place at&nbsp;the 31 May event&nbsp;(start time 5pm). In this special service, Bishop Steven will lay down his crozier as he begins his retirement. Places&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,372,6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-diocesan-news","category-events","category-news","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30641,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639\/revisions\/30641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}