The Dean of Birmingham is the senior member of

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responsible for St. Philip's Cathedral in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

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. Before 2000 the post was designated provost, which was the equivalent of a dean but used in the case of pro-cathedrals, such as Birmingham, which had originally been built as

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List of provosts and deans

Provosts

*1931–1937 Hamilton Baynes *1937–1949 Harold Richards *1951–1962 Michael Clarke *1962–1972

George Sinker George Sinker (5 May 1900 – 19 January 1986) was Anglican Bishop of Nagpur, bishop of Nagpur and provost of Birmingham Cathedral. He was born in Hyderabad, India, the son of the Reverend R Sinker, and was educated at Rossall School and Brasenos ...

*1972–1986 Basil Moss *1986–2000 Peter Berry *2000–'

Gordon Mursell Alfred Gordon Mursell (born 4 May 1949) is a retired British Anglican bishop and author. From 2005 to 2010, he was the Bishop of Stafford in the Church of England. Mursell was educated at Ardingly College and Brasenose College, Oxford.‘MURSELL, ...

''(became Dean)''

Deans

*''2002/3''–2005 Gordon Mursell ''(previously Provost)'' *2006–2009 Robert Wilkes *2010–2017 Catherine Ogle (installed and inducted in September 2010) *30 September 2017present Matt ThompsonBirmingham Cathedral — Installation of Matt Thompson as Dean of Birmingham
(Accessed 1 September 2017)

Notes

References

*''Whitaker's Almanack'' various editions from 1917 to 2004, Joseph Whitaker & Sons {{Deans in the Church of England Birmingham, Dean of Lists of English people Anglican Diocese of Birmingham

List of provosts and deans

Provosts

Deans

See also

Notes

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