Dean of Ely

Ely Cathedral

The position of Dean of Ely Cathedral, in East Anglia, England, in the Diocese of Ely was created in 1541 after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The first Dean of Ely had been the last Benedictine prior of Ely.

List of deans

^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Stubbs, Charles William" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 32 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 599.
^ Telegraph obituary – Canon William Patterson
^ "Ely Diocese – Retirement of the Dean of Ely". Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2011.

v t e Diocese of Ely
Ely Cathedral Isle of Ely Bishop's House, Ely (since 1941) Bishop Woodford House Bishop's Palace, Ely (15th century – 1941) Ely Palace, Holborn (1290–1772) Ely House, Mayfair (1776–1908)
Office holders	Stephen Conway, Bishop of Ely and Acting Bishop of Lincoln Dagmar Winter, Bishop suffragan of Huntingdon AEO: Norman Banks, Bishop suffragan of Richborough & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Mark Bonney, Dean of Ely Alex Hughes, Archdeacon of Cambridge Richard Harlow, Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech
Historic offices	Archdeacon of Ely (c. 1106 – ren. 2006) Archdeacon of Bedford (1837–1914; moved to Diocese of St Albans) Archdeacon of Wisbech (1915 – c. 2004; merged into Huntingdon {& Wisbech})

v t e Deans in the Church of England
Province of Canterbury	Birmingham Bristol Canterbury Chelmsford Chichester Dean of Christ Church, Oxford Coventry Derby Ely Exeter Gibraltar Gloucester Guildford Hereford Jersey Leicester Lichfield Lincoln Norwich Peterborough Portsmouth Rochester St Albans St Edmundsbury St Paul's (London) Salisbury Southwark Truro Wells Winchester Worcester
Province of York	Blackburn Bradford (Leeds diocese) Carlisle Chester Durham Liverpool Manchester Newcastle Peel Ripon (Leeds diocese) Sheffield Southwell Wakefield (Leeds diocese) York
Royal Deans	Dean of the Chapel Royal Westminster Windsor

v t e Deans of Ely
Early modern	Robert Steward Andrew Perne John Bell Humphrey Tyndall Henry Caesar/Adelmare William Fuller William Beale Richard Love Henry Ferne Edward Martin Francis Wilford Robert Mapletoft John Spencer John Lambe John Wickart Charles Roderick Robert Moss John Frankland Peter Allix Hugh Thomas William Cooke
Late modern	William Pearce James Wood George Peacock Harvey Goodwin Charles Merivale Charles Stubbs Alexander Kirkpatrick Lionel Blackburne Patrick Hankey Michael Carey Allan Shaw William Patterson Michael Higgins Michael Chandler David Pritchard (Acting) Mark Bonney

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