The Dean of Guernsey is the leader of the

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Guernsey Guernsey (; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; french: Guernesey) is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency. It is the second largest of the Channel Islands ...

Alderney Alderney (; french: Aurigny ; Auregnais: ) is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is long and wide. The island's area is , making it the third-largest ...

, and

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. The

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fulfils the role of

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, and Bishop's commissary for the Deanery of Guernsey. In Guernsey, the Church of England is the

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, although the Dean is not a member of the States of Guernsey. The Deanery of Guernsey was officially part of the

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since 1568. This meant that the British Channel Island of Guernsey was under the legal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Winchester and was responsible for its episcopal oversight up until March of the 2014. Due to a breakdown in the relationship between the Dean of Jersey and the Bishop of Winchester, the

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of the

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provided temporary episcopal oversight and legal responsibility of administrative affairs until 2018. The Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission reported later in 2019, in response to the future management of the Channel Islands' Deaneries, made a number of recommendations that aimed to strengthen the relationship between Bishop and Dean and Diocese and Deanery. One of these recommendations were that the Deaneries of Guernsey and Jersey should now be attached to the

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List of deans

* 1566: John After * 1662 to 1697: John Saumares * 1892 to 1918: Thomas Bell * 1918 to 1922: John Penfold * 1922 to 1931: Douglas Carey * 1931 to 1947: Agnew Giffard * 1947 to 1967:

Edward Frossard Edward Louis Frossard CBE was an Anglican priest in the mid 20th century. He was born on 22 February 1887, educated at Durham University and ordained in 1913. After a curacy at Penkridge he was a Chaplain to the Forces during World War I. H ...

* 1967 to 1978:

Frederick Cogman Frederick Walter Cogman AKC was Dean of Guernsey from 1967 to 1978 He was born on 4 March 1913, educated at Rutlish Grammar School and King's College London, and ordained in 1938. After a curacy at Upton-cum-Chalvey he became Chaplain a ...

* 1978 to 1988: John Foster * 1989 to 1995:

Jeffrey Fenwick Jeffery Robert Fenwick (born 1930) was an eminent Anglican priest in the last quarter of the twentieth century. History He was born on 8 April 1930, educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and ordained in 1956. After a curacy at St Thomas the ...

* 1995 to 2003:

Marc Trickey Frederick Marc Trickey (born 16 August 1935) was an Anglican priest in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Durham University and ordained in 1965. After a curacy at the Church of St Lawrence, Al ...

* 2003 to 2014:

Paul Mellor Paul Mellor (born 21 August 1974 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played for four different Sydney NRL clubs and in Britain before retiring at the en ...

* 2015 to present: Tim Barker

References

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Christianity in Guernsey

List of deans

See also

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