The Dean of Liverpool is based in Liverpool and is head of the chapter of

Liverpool Cathedral Liverpool Cathedral is the Cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool, built on St James's Mount in Liverpool, and the seat of the Bishop of Liverpool. It may be referred to as the Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool (as recorded in the ...

. Sue Jones was installed as Dean on 5 May 2018. A former dean,

Edward Patey Edward Henry Patey (12 August 1915 – 5 September 2005) was the Church of England Dean of Liverpool, England from 1964 to 1982. Patey was born in Bristol and educated at Marlborough College, Hertford College, Oxford and Westcott House, Cambridg ...

, said that being Dean of Liverpool was "the best job in the

Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain ...

List of deans

*1931–1955:

Frederick Dwelly Frederick William Dwelly (9 April 1881 – 9 May 1957) was the first Dean of Liverpool. From a modest family background, Dwelly worked as a shop assistant in London before the vicar of the church he attended there spotted his potential, and a ...

*1956–1963:

Frederick Dillistone Frederick William Dillistone (9 May 1903 – 5 October 1993) was the second Dean of Liverpool. Dillistone was educated at Brighton College and Brasenose College, Oxford. Ordained in 1928, he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Jude ...

*1964–1983:

*1983–1999:

Derrick Walters Rhys Derrick Chamberlain Walters (1932–2000) was an Anglican priest in Britain. He served as the fourth Dean of Liverpool from 1983 to 1999 during which time he extended the facilities of the cathedral and promoted the creation of a large publ ...

*2000–2007:

Rupert Hoare Rupert William Noel Hoare (born 3 March 1940) is a former dean of Liverpool and Anglican area bishop of Dudley. Hoare was born in Sussex and attended the Dragon School in Oxford before attending Rugby School. Upon completing his secondary educati ...

*2007–2011:

Justin Welby Justin Portal Welby (born 6 January 1956) is a British bishop who is the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury. He has served in that role since 2013. Welby was previously the vicar of Southam, Warwickshire, and then Bishop of Durham, serving for jus ...

(became

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, then

Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justi ...

) *15 September 20125 June 2017:

Pete Wilcox Peter Jonathan Wilcox (born 1961) is a British Anglican bishop. Since June 2017, he has been the bishop of Sheffield in the Church of England. He was previously the dean of Liverpool from 2012 to 2017. Early life and education Wilcox was born ...

(became

Bishop of Sheffield The Bishop of Sheffield is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Sheffield in the Province of York. A similar title was first created as a suffragan see in the Diocese of York in 1901. John Quirk, the only Bishop suffragan of Shef ...

) *5 May 2018present: Sue Jones

References

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