honorary canon
Americannoun
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That suspension started in 2019 when a new police investigation was opened into Tudor, who was by then an honorary canon of Chelmsford Cathedral and an area dean.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2025
But under Mr Cottrell, Tudor twice had his contract in the senior post of area dean renewed and in 2015 was made honorary canon of Chelmsford Cathedral.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2025
David Tudor's elevation to honorary canon is something Stephen Cottrell "regrets", says his office, but it was "not a promotion and not a personal reward".
From BBC • Dec. 16, 2024
"You are absolutely uplifting somebody's ministry as an example and a model of good and best practice, and you're celebrating that actually by making them an honorary canon."
From BBC • Dec. 16, 2024
—Died at St. Moritz, the Engadine, the Rev. Thomas Parry Garnier, rector of Banham, and honorary canon of Norwich.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
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