{"id":359145,"date":"2010-02-24T17:13:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T22:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12047"},"modified":"2010-02-24T17:13:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T22:13:12","slug":"germany%e2%80%99s-top-protestant-bishop-quits-after-drunk-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/359145","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s top Protestant bishop quits after drunk driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12051\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 650px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051\" title=\"kaessmann\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/02\/kaessmann1.jpg\" alt=\"kaessmann\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bishop Margot K\u00e4ssmann at her news conference in Hanover 24 Feb 2010\/Stringer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"articleText\"><span>The head of Germany&#8217;s 25 million Protestants resigned on Wednesday after police stopped her for driving while under the influence of alcohol just four months after becoming the third woman to head a major Christian church.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Known as the &#8220;pop bishop,&#8221; 51-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margot_Kaessmann\">Margot K\u00e4ssmann<\/a> is a regular on television talk shows and had been a controversial choice as head of Germany&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evangelische_Kirche_in_Deutschland\">Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)<\/a>, the main association of Protestant churches, because she is a divorced mother of four.<\/p>\n<p>Betraying no emotion, <span id=\"articleText\">she<\/span> told reporters she had made a grave mistake which she deeply regretted: <em>&#8220;But I cannot ignore the fact that my office and my authority &#8230; have been damaged.&#8221;<\/em> With immediate effect, she would give up her role as leader of the EKD, an umbrella group of 22 Lutheran, Reformed and United Churches, and as Lutheran bishop of Hanover, she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE61N58S20100224\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Margot K\u00e4ssmann at her news conference in Hanover 24 Feb 2010\/Stringer The head of Germany&#8217;s 25 million Protestants resigned on Wednesday after police stopped her for driving while under the influence of alcohol just four months after becoming the third woman to head a major Christian church. Known as the &#8220;pop bishop,&#8221; 51-year-old Margot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}