Dean of Llandaff

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

• 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 Glyn Simon (afterwards Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, 1953, Bishop of Llandaff, 1957, and Archbishop of Wales, 1968)
• 1954–1968 Eryl Thomas (afterwards Bishop of Monmouth, 1968, and Bishop of Llandaff, 1970)
• 1968–1971 Gordon Phillips
• 1971–1977 John Williams
• 1977–1993 Alun Davies
• 1993–2000 John Rogers
• 2000–2012 John Lewis
• 2013 Janet Henderson (resigned May 2013)
• 2014–2022 Gerwyn Capon (resigned May 2022)^[2]
• 2022–2024 Richard Peers
• 8 September 2024 onwards Jason Bray^[3]

Richard Charles Peers (born 1965)^[4] was instituted Dean of Llandaff on 20 November 2022.^[5] 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.^[6] He was made deacon at Petertide 1993, by John Habgood, Archbishop of York, at York Minster;^[7] and ordained priest the following Petertide (4 July 1994), by Gordon Bates, Bishop of Whitby, at his title church: St Hilda's Church, Grangetown.^[8]

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. "The Holy Eucharist" (PDF). Llandaff Cathedral. 1 September 2024. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
4. "Richard Charles Peers". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
5. "Installation of the new Dean of Llandaff". Llandaff Cathedral. Archived from the original on 3 August 2023. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
6. "Fr Richard Peers to become Dean of Llandaff". Diocese of Oxford. Churrch of England. 23 September 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
7. "Petertide ordinations". Church Times. No. 6805. 16 July 1993. p. 5. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 6 August 2023 – via UK Press Online archives.
8. "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