- Dean of St Paul's
The Dean of St Paul's is the head of the Chapter of
St Paul's Cathedral inLondon ,England and an extremely influential position in theChurch of England . The most recent Dean was John Moses, who was appointed in 1996, and retired in 2006. The name of the new Dean isGraeme Knowles , currentBishop of Sodor and Man .The Dean of St Paul's is, "ex officio ", the Dean of theOrder of the British Empire .List of Deans
Pre-Reformation
:c.1180 to - ????:
Ralph de Diceto :1241 - 1243: William "de Sanctae Mariae ecclesia":??? - July 1262: Richard Talbot: becameBishop of London :??? - 1273:John Chishull : became Bishop of London,Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer 1276-1283Thomas Ingoldsthorpe : becameBishop of Rochester :1294 - 1304:Ralph de Baldoc : became Bishop of London:???? - 1313: Arnald "Frangerius de Cantilupo":(1314 - 1316: John de Sandale):1314 - 1322: Vitalis "de Testa":(c.1316 -1317Richard de Newport ) became Bishop of London:(1317:Roger de Northburgh ):1322 - 1335:John de Everdon :1335 - 1354:Gilbert de Bruera :1354 - 1361:Richard de Kilvington :1361 - 1364:Thomas de Trillek became Bishop of Rochester:(1362Walter de Alderbury ):1364 - 1389:John de Appleby :1389 - 1400:Thomas de Eure :1400 - 1405:Thomas Stowe :1406 - 1421: Thomas More:1422 - 1441:Reginald Kentwood :1441 - 1456:Thomas Lisieux :1456 - 1457:Laurence Booth :1457 - 1468: William Say:1468 - 1471:Roger Radclyffe :1471 - 1478:Thomas Wynterbourne :1479 - 1499: William Worsley:1499 - 1505:Robert Sherborne : becameBishop of Saint David's :1505 - 1519:John Colet :1519 - 1536:Richard Pace (d.1536):1536 - 1540:Richard Sampson : alsoBishop of Chichester Post-Reformation
:1540 - 1545:
John Incent :1545 - 1554:William May (first appointment):1554 - 1556:John Feckenham :1556 - 1559: Henry Cole:1559 - 1560: William May (second appointment):1560 - 1602:Alexander Nowell :1602 - 1614: John Overall: becameBishop of Lichfield and Coventry :1614 - 1621:Valentine Carey : becameBishop of Exeter :1621 - 1631:John Donne :1631 - 1642:Thomas Winniffe : becameBishop of Lincoln :1642 - 1651:Richard Steward "(not installed but called dean)":"1651 - 1660: None":1660 - 1661:Matthew Nicholas :1661 - 1664:John Barwick :1664 - 1678:William Sancroft : becameArchbishop of Canterbury :1678 - 1689:Edward Stillingfleet : becameBishop of Worcester :1689 - 1691:John Tillotson : became Archbishop of Canterbury:1691 - 1707:William Sherlock :1707 - 1726:Henry Godolphin :1726 - 1740:Francis Hare : becameBishop of Chichester in 1731 holding deanery "in commendam":1740 - 1750:Joseph Butler : becameBishop of Durham :1750 - 1758:Thomas Secker (alsoBishop of Oxford ): became Archbishop of Canterbury:1758 - 1766: John Hume: becameBishop of Salisbury :1766 - 1768:Frederick Cornwallis : alsoBishop of Lichfield and Coventry :1768 - 1782:Thomas Newton : alsoBishop of Bristol :1782 - 1787: Thomas Thurlow: alsoBishop of Lincoln becameBishop of Durham :1787 - 1820:George Pretyman : changed his name toGeorge Pretyman Tomline : becameBishop of Winchester :1820 - 1826:William van Mildert : (alsoBishop of Llandaff ) becameBishop of Durham :1826 - 1827:Charles Richard Sumner : (also Bishop of Llandaff): becameBishop of Winchester :1827 - 1849:Edward Copleston (also Bishop of Llandaff):1849 - 1868:Henry Hart Milman :1868 - 1871:Henry Longueville Mansel :1871 - ?1890:Richard William Church :1911 - 1934:William Ralph Inge :1934 - 1973:Walter Robert Matthews - lived 1881-1973, alsoDean of Exeter 1931-1934:1973 - 1977:Martin Gloster Sullivan 1910-1980 former Archdeacon of London:1978 - 1987:Alan Brunskill Webster - former Dean of Norwich:1988 - 1996:Thomas Eric Evans - former Canon Residentiary of Gloucester :1996 - 2006: Dr John Moses - retired on 31 August 2006:2007 -Graeme Paul Knowles Sources
*'Deans of St Paul's', "Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541": volume 5: St Paul's, London (1963), pp. 4-7. URL: [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=32379] . Date accessed: 25 October 2005.
*'Deans of St Paul's', "Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857": volume 1: St. Paul's, London (1969), pp. 5-7. URL: [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=34690] . Date accessed: 21 October 2005.
*WR Matthews: [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/archives/collect/10ma80-1.html] Date accessed: 15 February 2006.
*St Paul's Cathedral press release 23 Jan 2006: [http://www.stpauls.co.uk/page.aspx?theLang=001lngdef&pointerid=13737YlErY7ctdJzPY8DcmQdxveTfgxp&action=] Date accessed: 15 February 2006.
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