{"id":3358,"date":"2009-09-10T13:18:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T17:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2025-01-21T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T23:39:19","slug":"when-bishops-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/when-bishops-disappoint\/","title":{"rendered":"When Bishops Disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxnet.com\/z-img-lib\/Hopko-Thomas_150x195.jpg\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 4px 4px 9px;\" border=\"0\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ancientfaith.com\/podcasts\/hopko\">AFR<\/a> | Fr. Thomas Hopko | Sep. 9, 2009<\/p>\n<p>In this podcast Fr. Thomas Hopko addresses the key issue of \u201cWhat do we do when those in leadership are not exercising their leadership properly?\u201d  Fr. Tom discusses corruption in the Orthodox Church and explains that these types of situations are nothing new. He references scriptures and explains that proper Christian leadership consists of servanthood (not overlordship) and exhorts the faithful to help the priests and bishops to \u201ctend the flock of God that is in (their) charge.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxnet.com\/z-img-lib\/podcast_button_xsm.jpg\" \/> <strong>When Bishops Disappoint<\/strong> &#8211; 9\/9\/09 <a class=\"wp-embedded-audio\" href=\"http:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/hopko\/stt_2009-09-04.mp3|titles=When\">http:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/hopko\/stt_2009-09-04.mp3|titles=When<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Direct Link to Audio file (right-click to download)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/hopko\/stt_2009-09-04.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When Bishops Disappoint<\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/ancientfaith.com\/podcasts\/hopko\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFR | Fr. Thomas Hopko | Sep. 9, 2009 In this podcast Fr. Thomas Hopko addresses the key issue of \u201cWhat do we do when those in leadership are not exercising their leadership properly?\u201d Fr. Tom discusses corruption in the Orthodox Church and explains that these types of situations are nothing new. He references scriptures &#8230; <a title=\"When Bishops Disappoint\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/when-bishops-disappoint\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about When Bishops Disappoint\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"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,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,194,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-fr-hopko","category-moral-issues","category-orthodox-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}