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The Dean of Westminster is the head of the chapter at
Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the Unite ...
. Due to the Abbey's status as a
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, the
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answers directly to the British monarch (not to the
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as ordinary, nor to the Archbishop of Canterbury as metropolitan). Initially, the office was a successor to that of
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, and was for the first 10 years cathedral dean for the
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. The current dean is
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.


List of deans


Notes

* Died in office


References

{{Deans of Westminster Deans Westminster Abbey Religion in the City of Westminster