Dean of Llandaff

It is not an ancient office – the head of the chapter was historically the Archdeacon who appears in this role in the Liber Landavensis and in the Chapter Acts preserved in the Glamorgan Records Office – but the office of a separate Dean was established by act of parliament in 1843.

The Chapter forfeited its legal rights on Disestablishment in 1920, when the Dean and Chapter as an ecclesiastical corporation was dissolved, under the terms of the Welsh Church Act 1914.

[1] Richard Charles Peers (born 1965)[4] was instituted Dean of Llandaff on 20 November 2022.

[5] Both before and since ordination, Peers has worked as a teacher; he was Director of Education for the Diocese of Liverpool and CEO of Liverpool Diocesan Schools Trust before moving to Oxford in September 2020 as Sub-Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

[6] He was made deacon at Petertide 1993, by John Habgood, Archbishop of York, at York Minster;[7] and ordained priest the following Petertide (4 July 1994), by Gordon Bates, Bishop of Whitby, at his title church: St Hilda's Church, Grangetown.