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Provosts And Deans Of St Edmundsbury
The Dean of St Edmundsbury is the head (''primus inter pares'' – first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons, the ruling body of St Edmundsbury Cathedral. The dean and chapter are based at the Cathedral Church of Saint James in Bury St Edmunds. Before 2000 the post was designated as a Provost (religion), provost, which was then the equivalent of a Dean (religion), dean at most List of cathedrals in the United Kingdom, English cathedrals. The cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and seat of the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The current dean is Joe Hawes. List of deans Provosts *1929–1940 John Orpen, John Herbert Orpen *1940–1958 John White (Provost of St Edmundsbury), John White *1958–1976 John Waddington (priest), John Waddington *1976–1981 David Maddock *1981–1994 Raymond Furnell *1995–''19 November 2000'' James Atwell ''(became Dean)'' Deans *''19 November 2000''–2006 James Atwell *2006–2009 Neil Co ...
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St Edmundsbury Cathedral
St Edmundsbury Cathedral (formally entitled the Cathedral Church of St James and St Edmund) is the cathedral for the Church of England's Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. It is the seat of the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and is in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. Originating in the 11th century, it was rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries as a parish church and became a cathedral in 1914; it has been considerably enlarged in recent decades. History A church has stood on the site of the cathedral since at least 1065, when Saint Denis of Paris, St Denis's Church was built within the precincts of Bury St Edmunds Abbey. In the early 12th century the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds, Abbot, Anselm of St Saba, Anselm, had wanted to make a pilgrimage along the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela. He was unsuccessful and instead rebuilt St Denis's and dedicated the new church to James, son of Zebedee, Saint James, which served as the parish church for the north side of Bury St ...
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David Maddock
David Rokeby Maddock (30 May 1915 – 20 August 1984) was Bishop of Dunwich from 1967 to 1976. He was born on 30 May 1915 and educated at Clifton College and St Catherine's College, Oxford. After ordination he was a curate at Chard and then Vicar of Wilton before 14 years as Rector of Wareham and finally, before his ordination to the episcopate, the Archdeacon of Sherborne (1961–1967) and, from 1966, also Rector of West Stafford in Dorset. He was then appointed Provost of St Edmundsbury (1976–1981). Maddock was a Freemason, initiated in the Apollo University Lodge, Oxford, in 1937. He died on 14 August 1984''The Times ''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its si ...'', 20 August 1984, p. 12, "Obituaries" and was succeeded by William Johnston. Notes ...
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Provosts And Deans Of St Edmundsbury
The Dean of St Edmundsbury is the head (''primus inter pares'' – first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons, the ruling body of St Edmundsbury Cathedral. The dean and chapter are based at the Cathedral Church of Saint James in Bury St Edmunds. Before 2000 the post was designated as a Provost (religion), provost, which was then the equivalent of a Dean (religion), dean at most List of cathedrals in the United Kingdom, English cathedrals. The cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and seat of the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The current dean is Joe Hawes. List of deans Provosts *1929–1940 John Orpen, John Herbert Orpen *1940–1958 John White (Provost of St Edmundsbury), John White *1958–1976 John Waddington (priest), John Waddington *1976–1981 David Maddock *1981–1994 Raymond Furnell *1995–''19 November 2000'' James Atwell ''(became Dean)'' Deans *''19 November 2000''–2006 James Atwell *2006–2009 Neil Co ...
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Anglican Ecclesiastical Offices
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Most are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, one of the largest Christian bodies in the world, and the world's third-largest Christian communion. When united churches in the Anglican Communion and the breakaway Continuing Anglican movement were not counted, there were an estimated 97.4 million Anglicans worldwide in 2020. Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The provinces within the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the archbisho ...
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Lists Of Anglicans
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ...
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Graeme Knowles
Graeme Paul Knowles (born 25 September 1951) is a retired Anglican bishop who is serving as Acting Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. He served latterly as the Acting Dean of St Edmundsbury, having previously served as Bishop of Sodor and Man and as Dean of St Paul's. Biography Knowles was educated at Dunstable Grammar School and King's College London, spending his final year of theological studies at St Augustine's College, Canterbury. Knowles served a curacy at St Peter-in-Thanet in Broadstairs, Kent from 1974 to 1979. From 1979 he was precentor and senior curate of Leeds Parish Church before moving to become precentor and a canon residentiary at Portsmouth Cathedral in 1981. He was also a chaplain during his time at the cathedral and held the post of chapter clerk from 1985 to 1987. He became the vicar of Leigh Park in 1987, additionally taking on the role of Rural Dean of Havant from 1990. He was appointed Archdeacon of Portsmouth in 1993 and held the pos ...
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Frances Ward (priest)
Frances Elizabeth Fearn Ward (born 16 September 1959) is an Anglican priest and theologian. She served as Dean of St Edmundsbury from 2010 to 2017. Early life and education Ward was born on 16 September 1959 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. She was educated at King's Ely. She later studied at the University of St Andrews and the University of Manchester.'WARD, Very Rev. Frances Elizabeth Fearn', ''Who's Who 2017'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 201accessed 4 July 2017/ref> From 1987 to 1989, she trained for holy orders at Westcott House, Cambridge, an Anglican theological college in the Liberal Catholic tradition. Ordained ministry She was ordained deacon in 1989 and priest in 1994. She was then a tutor at Northern College until 1998 and then Vicar of St Peter's Bury until 2005. She was a residentiary canon at Bradford Cathedral from 2006 until her appointment as Dean in 2010. On 30 May ...
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Neil Collings
Neil Collings (1946–2010) was an eminent Church of England priest who was Dean of St Edmundsbury. Education and career He was born on 26 August 1946 and educated at Torquay Boys' Grammar School and King's College London and ordained in 1970. After this he was Curate, then Vicar of Exmouth. Later he was Director of Ordinands for the Diocese of Hereford and then Rector of Harpenden. In 1999 he was made Residentiary Canon of Exeter Cathedral. In 2006 he became Dean of St Edmundsbury, retiring through ill health in 2009. While at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, he organised the 2009 Royal Maundy Freemasonry Collings was one of the most prominent clerical Freemasons of his era. Initiated in the Earl of Mornington Lodge (London) in 1978, he went on to belong to more than a dozen lodges. He served as a Lodge Chaplain, and later as Provincial Grand Chaplain in both the Provinces of Hertfordshire and Devonshire, subsequently becoming Assistant Provincial Grand Master of Hertfordshire. In th ...
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James Atwell
James Edgar Atwell (3 June 1946 – 12 December 2020) was an English priest who was Dean of Winchester. Biography James Edgar Atwell was born on 2 June 1946. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, Dauntsey's and Exeter College, Oxford. He went to theological college at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Cuddesdon and was ordained in 1971. He began his ordained ministry with a Curate, curacy at St John the Evangelist, East Dulwich after which he was curate at Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge and Chaplain at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has a Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin), Master of Arts (MA Oxon) and a Bachelor of Divinity (BD). From Cambridge he became Vicar of St Lawrence, Towcester and then Provost (religion), Provost of St Edmundsbury Cathedral before becoming (automatically, due to the Cathedrals Measure) Dean of St Edmundsbury on 19 November 2000. Having received Letters Patent from Elizabeth II, he was installed in Winchester Cathedral at a service on Lady day, 25 March ...
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Raymond Furnell
Raymond Furnell (18 May 1936 – 10 July 2006) was the Dean of York from 1994 to 2003. His first ministry position was as a curate at Cannock, in the Diocese of Lichfield, from 1965 to 1969. From there, he moved to become vicar of Clayton part of Newcastle-under-Lyme, a position he held from 1969 to 1975. He then became Rural Dean for Stoke North — a post he held until 1981 when he became Provost of St Edmundsbury. He remained in that post until his move to York Minster in 1994. He retired from York Minster in late May 2003. Following his retirement, he returned to Bury St EdmundsThe Very Reverend Raymond Furnell - Telegraph
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John Waddington (priest)
John Albert Henry Waddington, MBE, TD (10 February 1910 – 23 November 1994) was the Provost of St Edmundsbury from 1958 to 1976. He was educated at Wandsworth Grammar School and the London College of Divinity and ordained in 1934. His first ecclesiastical posts were curacies at St Andrew's, Streatham and St Paul's, Furzedown. After this he was Rector of Great Bircham from 1938 to 1945 then Vicar of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich until 1958. In 1968 Waddington was appointed Grand Chaplain of the Royal Masonic Order."News of Old Boys". The Link, Wandsworth School Wandsworth School was a local authority maintained boys' secondary school in Southfields, London. Established in 1895, it became a selective grammar school, then an all-ability comprehensive school, before merging in 1986 and finally closing ... Magazine. Page 19. December 1968. References 1910 births Members of the Order of the British Empire Holders of a Lambeth degree Provosts and Deans ...
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St Edmundsbury Cathedral
St Edmundsbury Cathedral (formally entitled the Cathedral Church of St James and St Edmund) is the cathedral for the Church of England's Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. It is the seat of the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and is in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. Originating in the 11th century, it was rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries as a parish church and became a cathedral in 1914; it has been considerably enlarged in recent decades. History A church has stood on the site of the cathedral since at least 1065, when Saint Denis of Paris, St Denis's Church was built within the precincts of Bury St Edmunds Abbey. In the early 12th century the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds, Abbot, Anselm of St Saba, Anselm, had wanted to make a pilgrimage along the Way of St James to Santiago de Compostela. He was unsuccessful and instead rebuilt St Denis's and dedicated the new church to James, son of Zebedee, Saint James, which served as the parish church for the north side of Bury St ...
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