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The
Chapter
The Chapter is made up of 8 people. Three of them,
the Dean (Very Revd John Clarke), the Chancellor
Revd Canon Andrew Featherstone and the Precentor
(Reverend Canon Patrick Woodhouse) are employed full
time on Cathedral business.
Two more, also members of the Clergy, are shared between
Cathedral and Diocese. Russell Bowman-Eadie is Canon Treasurer and Venerable Nicola Sullivan is
Archdeacon of Wells.
The Cathedral Administrator, a lay person but still
titled Prebendary, John Roberts is a member of the
Chapter ex-officio and there are two further appointed
lay members, Prebendaries Helen Ball and Elsa van
der Zee.
The
College of Canons
The word Canon means a yard-stick, in old times a rule
to live by. Canons are so-called because they belong
to a body that lives by a rule of worship and service.
In Wells it is the custom for Canons to be known as
Prebendaries each of whom is linked with a prebend,
which is a manor or other estate, from which the Prebendary
used to derive an income.
The College of Canons consists of 39 Prebendaries
and is a body of people appointed by the Bishop who
are associated in some way with the life and outreach
of the Cathedral. In addition to the Chapter members,
the Bishop of Taunton, the Archdeacons of Taunton
and Bath and the Sub-Dean the Bishop may appoint up to 27 people including those beneficed or licensed in the diocese, or other dioceses and lay people.
It is the College of Canons who meet in the Chapter
House to elect a new Bishop, having received the Royal
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