Dean of Canterbury

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The Dean of Canterbury is the head of the Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral in England. It originated after the English Reformation, and its precursor office was the prior of the cathedral-monastery. The 39th and current Dean is Robert Willis, who was appointed in 2001.

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[edit] List

[edit] 820-1080

[edit] 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

[edit] Victoria County History, 1926

  • Cuba, occurs 798
  • Beornheard, occurs 805
  • Heahfrith, occurs 813
  • Ceolnoth, resigned 833 (fn. 89)
  • Æthelwine, occurs c. 860
  • Eadmund, occurs c.871
  • Æthelnoth, resigned 1020 (fn. 89)
  • Godric, occurs 1020, 1023
  • Æthelric, resigned 1058 (fn. 90)
  • Ælfric (fn. 91)
  • Ælfsige
  • Ælfwine
  • Ælfwine
  • Kynsige
  • Maurice

[edit] Priors of Canterbury

Main article: Priors of Canterbury Cathedral

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.

[edit] Post-Reformation

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