Dean of Canterbury

The Dean of Canterbury is the head of the Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral in England. The 39th and current Dean is Robert Willis, who was appointed in 2001.

Related Topics:
Chapter - Canterbury Cathedral - England - Dean - Robert Willis - 2001

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Past incumbents have included:

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• Nicholas Wotton (1541-1567) (the first post-Reformation Dean)
• Thomas Godwin (1567-1584)
• Richard Rogers (1584-1597)
• Thomas Neville (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 Friend (1760-1766)
• John Potter (1766-1770)
• Brownlow North (1770-1771)
• John Moore (1771-1775)
• James Cornwallis (1775-1781)
• George Horne (1781-1790)
• William Buller (1790-1792)
• Folliott Cornewall (1793-1797)
• Thomas Powys (1797-1809)
• Gerard Andrewes (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)
 
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