{"id":34,"date":"2024-08-13T17:10:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T21:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2024-08-13T17:10:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T21:10:55","slug":"why-ecclesiastical-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/?page_id=34","title":{"rendered":"Why Ecclesiastical Endorsement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/cropped-OCCI-Chaplains-Seal-v1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10\" style=\"width:237px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/cropped-OCCI-Chaplains-Seal-v1.png 512w, https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/cropped-OCCI-Chaplains-Seal-v1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/cropped-OCCI-Chaplains-Seal-v1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/cropped-OCCI-Chaplains-Seal-v1-270x270.png 270w, https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/cropped-OCCI-Chaplains-Seal-v1-192x192.png 192w, https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/cropped-OCCI-Chaplains-Seal-v1-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/08\/cropped-OCCI-Chaplains-Seal-v1-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Office of Chaplains provides guidelines for Ecclesiastical Endorsement.&nbsp; Ecclesiastical Endorsements are provided to Chaplain candidates by their Bishop in the diocese to which the candidate has been assigned; however, the Office of Chaplains provides \u201cGuidelines for Ecclesiastical Endorsement\u201d so Bishops can make informed decisions about providing Ecclesiastical Endorsement to Chaplain candidates in their Diocese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When various agencies receive an Ecclesiastical Endorsement from an&nbsp; OCCI Chaplain candidate\u2019s Bishop, the Endorsement of an OCCI Chaplains conveys to the agency the OCCI Chaplain candidate is of the highest professional caliber, prepared through seminary training, and ordained through OCCI as either a priest or permanent deacon, and conveys the OCCI Chaplain candidate truly has a \u201ccall within a call\u201d to serve in the specialized ministry of Chaplaincy and understands the role of a chaplain, regardless of the type of chaplain they become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Chaplains provides guidelines for Ecclesiastical Endorsement.&nbsp; Ecclesiastical Endorsements are provided to Chaplain candidates by their Bishop in the diocese to which the candidate has been assigned; however, the Office of Chaplains provides \u201cGuidelines for Ecclesiastical Endorsement\u201d so Bishops can make informed decisions about providing Ecclesiastical Endorsement to Chaplain candidates in their Diocese. &#8230; <a title=\"Why Ecclesiastical Endorsement?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/?page_id=34\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why Ecclesiastical Endorsement?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/35"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplains.myocci.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}