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Dean of Canterbury#Post-Reformation Deans

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The Dean of Canterbury is the head of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Christ Church, Canterbury, England. The current office of Dean originated after the English Reformation, although Deans had also existed before this time; its immediate precursor office was the prior of the cathedral-monastery.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.

The current Dean, David Monteith was installed on 17 December 2022,[https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/our-story/chapter-members/ Chapter Members: Canterbury Cathedral], 17 December 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2022. and is the 40th Dean since the Reformation, though the position of Dean and Prior as the religious head of the community is almost identical so the line is unbroken back to the time of the foundation of the community by Saint Augustine in AD 597. The previous Dean, the Very Rev. Robert Willis, was appointed in 2001 and retired on 16 May 2022, a day before his 75th birthday.{{Cite web |url=https://canterburydiocese.org/our-life/news-events/news/the-dean-of-canterbury-to-retire.php |title=The Dean of Canterbury to retire |access-date=17 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217201919/https://canterburydiocese.org/our-life/news-events/news/the-dean-of-canterbury-to-retire.php |archive-date=17 February 2022}}

List of deans

=820–1080=

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==Version on show in the Cathedral (west end)==

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  • Cuba, occurs 798[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38189 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.
  • 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

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=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=

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==Early modern==

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==Late modern==

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References

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External links

  • [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=34584 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: volume 3]

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