Llandaff cathedral

Dean of Llandaff is the title given to the head of the chapter of Llandaff Cathedral, which is located in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales. It is not an ancient office the head of the chapter was historically the Archdeacon who appears in this role in the Liber Landavensis and in the Chapter Acts preserved in the Glamorgan Records Office but the office of a separate Dean was established by act of parliament in 1843. A century later, the Deanery was merged with the Vicarage of Llandaff. The Chapter forfeited its legal rights on Disestablishment in 1920, when the Dean and Chapter as an ecclesiastical corporation was dissolved, under the terms of the Welsh Church Act 1914. There continues, however, to be a Dean and Chapter under the scheme or constitution made under the Constitution of the Church in Wales.[1]

Deans of Llandaff

Richard Charles Peers (born 1965)[3] was instituted Dean of Llandaff on 20 November 2022.[4] Both before and since ordination, Peers has worked as a teacher; he was Director of Education for the Diocese of Liverpool and CEO of Liverpool Diocesan Schools Trust before moving to Oxford in September 2020 as Sub-Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.[5] He was made deacon at Petertide 1993, by John Habgood, Archbishop of York, at York Minster;[6] and ordained priest the following Petertide (4 July 1994), by Gordon Bates, Bishop of Whitby, at his title church: St Hilda's Church, Grangetown.[7]

References

  1. "Constitution of the Church in Wales, vol ii, section 3: Schemes". Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  2. "Dean of Llandaff announces his resignation". Diocese of Llandaff, Church in Wales. 17 May 2022. Archived from the original on 27 July 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  3. "Richard Charles Peers". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  4. "Installation of the new Dean of Llandaff". Llandaff Cathedral. Archived from the original on 3 August 2023. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  5. "Fr Richard Peers to become Dean of Llandaff". Diocese of Oxford. Churrch of England. 23 September 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  6. "Petertide ordinations". Church Times. No. 6805. 16 July 1993. p. 5. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 6 August 2023 via UK Press Online archives.
  7. "Ordinations". Church Times. No. 6857. 15 July 1994. p. 5. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 6 August 2023 via UK Press Online archives.

Bibliography

  • Phyllis Grosskurth, John Addington Symons, a Biography, 1964
  • Owain W. Jones, Glyn Simon, His Life and Opinions, 1981
  • Portrait of the geologist William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857): Gathering the Jewels


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