Dean of Canterbury
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Inscribed panels in Canterbury Cathedral, listing the Deans of Canterbury
The Dean of Canterbury is the head of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Christ Church, Canterbury, England. The office of dean originated after the English Reformation, and its precursor office was the prior of the cathedral-monastery.[1] The 39th and current Dean is Robert Willis, who was appointed in 2001.
Contents
List of deans
820–1080
Version on show in the Cathedral (west end) |
Victoria County History, 1926 |
Priors of Canterbury
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About a century after becoming a monastic foundation late in the 10th century, the Cathedral started to be headed by a prior rather than a dean. It would next have a dean after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Post-Reformation Deans
References
- ↑ A full list of the priors and Deans and Canterbury is given in A History of Canterbury Cathedral, ed. P. Collinson, N. Ramsay, M. Sparks. (OUP 1995, revised edition 2002), page 565.
- ↑ Houses of Benedictine monks: The cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury, A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2 (1926), pp. 113–121. accessed: 08 September 2009.
