Dean of Llandaff is the title given to the head of the

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Llandaff Cathedral Llandaff Cathedral () is a Church in Wales cathedral and parish church in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales. It is the seat of the Bishop of Llandaff, head of the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff. It is dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and ...

, which is located in

Llandaff Llandaff (; ; from 'church' and ''River Taff, Taf'') is a district, Community (Wales), community and coterminous electoral ward in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It was incorporated into the city in 1922. It is the seat of the Bisho ...

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. It is not an ancient office – the head of the chapter was historically the

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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

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in 1920, when the Dean and

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as an ecclesiastical corporation was dissolved, under the terms of the

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. There continues, however, to be a Dean and Chapter under the scheme or constitution made under the Constitution of the

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Deans of Llandaff

*1840–1843 John Probyn (archdeacon and dean) *1843–1845 William Bruce Knight *1845–1857 William Conybeare *1857–1877 Thomas Williams *1877–1879 Henry Lynch Blosse *1879–1897 Charles Vaughan *1897–1913 William Davey *1913–1926 Charles Edward Thomas Griffith *1926–1929 Frederick Worsley *1929–1931 Garfield Williams (afterwards Dean of Manchester) *1931–1948 David John Jones *1948–1953

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(afterwards Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, 1953,

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, 1957, and

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, 1968) *1954–1968 Eryl Thomas (afterwards Bishop of Monmouth, 1968, and

, 1970) *1968–1971 Gordon Phillips *1971–1977

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*1977–1993 Alun Davies *1993–2000 John Rogers *2000–2012

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*2013 Janet Henderson (resigned May 2013) *2014–2022 Gerwyn Capon (resigned May 2022) *2022–2024 Richard Peers *8 September 2024 onwards Jason Bray Richard Charles Peers (born 1965) was instituted Dean of Llandaff on 20 November 2022. Both before and since ordination, Peers has worked as a teacher; he was Director of Education for the

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and CEO of Liverpool Diocesan Schools Trust before moving to Oxford in September 2020 as Sub-Dean of

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. He was made deacon at

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1993, by

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, at

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; and ordained priest the following Petertide (4 July 1994), by Gordon Bates, Bishop of Whitby, at his title church: St Hilda's Church, Grangetown.

References

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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