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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
820–1080
Version on show in the Cathedral (west end)
- Ceolnoth 820
- Aegelwyn 830
- Alfric
- Kensyn
- Maurice
- Aelfwyn 930
- Alsine 935
- Aelfwyn II 951
- Athelsine
- Aegelnoth 984
- Egelric 1020
- Goderic 1058
Victoria County History, 1926
- Cuba, occurs 798[2]
- Beornheard, occurs 805
- Heahfrith, occurs 813
- Ceolnoth, resigned 833
- Æthelwine, occurs c. 860
- Eadmund, occurs c.871
- Æthelnoth, resigned 1020
- Godric, occurs 1020, 1023
- Æthelric, resigned 1058
- Ælfric
- Ælfsige
- Ælfwine
- Ælfwine
- Kynsige
- Maurice
Priors of Canterbury
Main article: Priors of Canterbury CathedralAbout 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
- Nicholas Wotton (1541–1567) (the first Dean, simultaneously Dean of York)
- Thomas Godwin (1567–1584)
- Richard Rogers (1584–1597)
- Thomas Nevile (1597–1615)
- Charles Fotherby (1615–1619)
- John Boys (1619–1625)
- Isaac Bargrave (1625–1643)
- George Aglionby (1643)
- Thomas Turner (1643–1672)
- John Tillotson (1672–1689)
- John Sharp (1689–1691)
- George Hooper (1691–1704)
- George Stanhope (1704–1728)
- Elias Sydall (1728–1733)
- John Lynch (1734–1760)
- William Freind (1760–1766)
- John Potter (1766–1770)
- Brownlow North (1770–1771)
- John Moore (1771–1775)
- Hon. James Cornwallis (1775–1781)
- George Horne (1781–1790)
- William Buller (1790–1792)
- Folliott Cornewall (1793–1797)
- Thomas Powys (1797–1809)
- Gerard Andrewes (1809–1825)
- Hugh Percy (1825–1827)
- Richard Bagot (1827–1845)
- William Rowe Lyall (1845–1857)
- Henry Alford (1857–1871)
- Robert Payne Smith (1871–1895)
- Frederic William Farrar (1895–1903)
- Henry Wace (1903–1924)
- George Bell (1924–1929)
- Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard (1929–1931)
- Hewlett Johnson (1931–1963)
- Ian White-Thomson (1963–1976)
- Victor A de Waal (1976–1986)
- John Arthur Simpson (1986–2000)
- Robert Willis (2000–present)
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.
External links
Categories:- Deans of Canterbury
- Anglicanism stubs
- England stubs
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