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A minor canon is a member of staff on the establishment of a cathedral or a collegiate church. In at least one foundation the post may be known as "priest-vicar". [1] Minor canons are clergy and take part in the daily services but are not part of the formal chapter. [2]
Canon of Westminster Abbey [5]: 110 Charles Gore: 1871: Bishop of Worcester, Birmingham, then Oxford: Chaplain to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII [5]: 70 Hardwicke Rawnsley: 1870: Anglican priest: Chaplain to the King. Co-founder National Trust [5]: 67 Henry Scott Holland: 1865: Canon of Christ Church: Regius Professor of Divinity
He was additionally a canon of Westminster Abbey from 1998, Sub-Dean of the Abbey from 2005 to 2010, and Archdeacon of Westminster from 2009 to 2010. [3] In September 2010, Wright retired from full-time ministry and was appointed canon emeritus. [6] Since 2011, he has held Permission to Officiate in the Diocese of Oxford. [3]
Medieval manuscripts abound in abbreviations, owing in part to the abandonment of the uncial, or quasi-uncial, and the almost universal use of the cursive, hand.The medieval writer inherited a few from Christian antiquity; others he invented or adapted, in order to save time and parchment.
John Charles Fenton (5 June 1921 – 27 December 2008) was a British Church of England priest and New Testament scholar. He was Principal of Lichfield Theological College from 1958 to 1965, Principal of St Chad's College, Durham University from 1965 to 1978, and a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 1978 to 1991.
D. Deacon; Deaconess; Dean (Christianity) Dean and Chapter of Ripon; Dean and Chapter of St Paul's; Dean of Birmingham; Dean of the Chapel Royal; Dean of Blackburn
He was Master of Butler's Hall, a private hall of the University of Oxford from 1855 to 1858. [2] Later he was a housemaster at Cheltenham College, and he became Principal of Liverpool College in 1865. Liverpool College's academic performance improved, with six open scholarships to Oxford and Cambridge by 1869.
Richard William was the eldest of three sons of John Dearman Church, a wine merchant, and his wife Bromley Caroline Metzener (died 1845). His grandfather Matthew Church, a merchant of Cork, and his wife, were Quakers, and John was not baptised into the Church of England until his marriage in 1814.