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*18 July 2022{{snd}}present: ]<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/July-2022-V2.pdf | title = Services and Music List July 2022 |website=Canterbury Cathedral |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220731212405/https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/July-2022-V2.pdf |archive-date=31 July 2022 |access-date=31 July 2022 }}</ref> *18 July 2022{{snd}}present: ]<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/July-2022-V2.pdf | title = Services and Music List July 2022 |website=Canterbury Cathedral |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220731212405/https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/July-2022-V2.pdf |archive-date=31 July 2022 |access-date=31 July 2022 }}</ref>
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==The events of Monday, 18 July 2022==
The installation of Dr Adam was advertised a few days in advance and the proceedings were filmed . The passage from Nehemiah chosen for the first reading included the words "cymbals, harps and lyres." Evensong was interrupted at 17:00:

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:Bishop Rose, I present to you William Jonathan Adam to be collated as Archdeacon of Canterbury and installed as residentiary canon of this cathedral and metropolitical church.
:'''Bishop Rose:''' Will, welcome. Rose, Bishop of Dover, under the authority of the most reverend father in God, Justin by Divine providence, Archbishop of Canterbury, to our well beloved in Christ, William Jonathan Adam, clerk:
:Grace, mercy and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I do by these presents confer upon you the said William Jonathan Adam the Archdeaconry of Canterbury with the canonry founded in the cathedral and metropolitical church of Christ, Canterbury, vacant by the resignation of Jo Kelly-Moore, clerk, the last Archdeacon and canon, to which you have been appointed by the most reverend father in God, Justin by Divine providence Archbishop of Canterbury, and I do hereby duly and canonically collate you in and to the said Archdeaconry and canonry and invest you with all and singular the rights members and appurtences taken such thereunto belonging. You have...you having first in my presence made and subscribed such declaration and taken such oaths as are by law or custom in such case required. And I do by these presents metro assign you into...t...onto you a stall in the choir and place and voice in the chapter of the said cathedral and metropolitical church belonging to the said Archdeaconry and canonry and to the same hitherto usually assigned, saving to the Archbishop of Canterbury and his successors his archiepiscopal rights and the dignity and honour of the said cathedral and metropolitical church, and so I commend you to almighty God, humbly praying in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that His blessing may rest upon you and your work, in testimony of which I have set my hand and affixed the archiepiscopal seal of the Archbishop of Canterbury, this eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-two. Rose, Bishop of Dover, under the authority of the most reverend father in God, Justin by Divine providence Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and metropolitan. To our well-beloved in Christ, the Venerable William Jonathan Adam, clerk, Archdeacon of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury within the diocese and jurisdiction of the said Archbishop, greetings. I do hereby constitute and appoint you, the said William Jonathan Adam, our commissary for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and I do empower you to receive, inspect and examine the presentations, petitions, and letters of Orders of all such clerks as shall be presented or shall petition to be admitted and instituted to vacant benefices within the said diocese and jurisdiction of the Archbishop, and, upon my approbation thereof, in cases where I am, for some grave and urgent cause unable to give institution in my own person, to admit and institute them to the respective benefices to which they shall have been presented or have petitioned to be admitted and instituted, they the said clerks first in your presence taking such oaths and making and subscribing such declarations as are by law or custom in such cases required, and to receive, inspect and examine the nominations of clerks to offices and team ministries, lectureships, proprietary chapels, chaplaincies, and stipendiary and other curacies within the said diocese and jurisdiction, and upon my approval thereof, to license them to the respective team ministries, lectureships, proprietary chapels, chaplaincies, and stipendiary and other curacies, they the said clerks, in your presence, taking such oaths and making and subscribing such declaration as are by law or custom in such case required, reserving nevertheless to the Archbishop full power and authority to revoke this commission when and as he may think fit. In testimony of which I have set my hand and affixed the archiepiscopal seal of the Archbishop of Canterbury, this eighteenth day of July in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-two. Will, receive this cure, which is both yours and mine, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
:24:44 Amen.
:'''Bishop Rose:''' Will, God give you the spirit of holy discipline, of faithfulness, and of love for all his people, and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, be upon you and remain with you always.
:25:19 Amen.
:'''Bishop Rose:''' Mr Vice-Dean, I request that you proceed with the installation in accordance with the contents of this mandate and following the custom of this cathedral and metropolitical church.
:25:36
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The Bishop left the cathedral at this point. As the authorities had doubts about the candidate's suitability for the post<ref>Late in 2021, the Bishop of Chichester asked his diocesan registrar to investigate allegations that Dr Adam was responsible for a shortfall in the funds of the ], of which he was a senior officer. In her report dated 12 November 2021 she found: "There is no evidence here about what the Respondent did with that cash."</ref><ref>See official report by the Treasurer of the Ecclesiastical Law Society 2021.</ref><ref>The case went to the Ecclesiastical Tribunal, where it was noted: "...the fact that the charity did not receive the money was evidence enough - he may have used it to purchase a luxury yacht but we don't know because he refuses to say."</ref><ref>In the matter of the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 and in the matter of the Reverend Canon Dr William Jonathan Adam. Decision of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal (Lady Justice Dame Sarah Asplin, President), February 2022.</ref> (see ] for background), she did not administer the oath, thus rendering the appointment null under canon law. Even if she had done so, this would not have validated the appointment since only the diocesan bishop has the authority to administer the oath.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.churchofengland.org/about/leadership-and-governance/legal-services/canons-church-england/section-c|last=Church of England|title=Canons of the Church of England Section C Ministers, their ordination, functions and charge C9 Of collation and presentation|date=February 2021|accessdate=24 August 2022|quote=2. Every bishop shall have 28 days' space to inquire and inform himself of the sufficiency and qualities of every minister, after he has been presented to him to be instituted to any benefice.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.churchofengland.org/about/leadership-and-governance/legal-services/canons-church-england/section-c|last=Church of England|title=Canons of the Church of England Section C Ministers, their ordination, functions and charge C14 Of the oaths of obedience|date=February 2021|accessdate=24 August 2022|quote=5. Every bishop, priest or deacon who is to be translated, instituted, installed, licensed or admitted to any office in the Church of England or otherwise to serve in any place shall reaffirm the Oath of Canonical Obedience or his solemn affirmation taken at his ordination or consecration to the archbishop of the province or the bishop of the diocese (as the case may be) by whom he is to be instituted, installed, licensed or admitted in the presence of the said archbishop or bishop...}}</ref> At 1:03:57 Dr Adam stood up and made a statement, the first sentence of which included the words "I...swear." This did not cure the defect. At the conclusion of every installation ceremony there are smiles and spontaneous applause. On this occasion there was just an embarrassed silence. The extreme heat, 105° F (nothing like this had ever been recorded before) prompted comparison with the destruction by fire at York Minster following the enthronement as Bishop of David Jenkin, who had said previously "I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted. But I don't think he did."


==References== ==References==

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Senior office-holder in Diocese of Canterbury at Church of England

The Archdeacon of Canterbury is a senior office-holder in the Diocese of Canterbury (a division of the Church of England Province of Canterbury). Like other archdeacons, he or she is an administrator in the diocese at large (having oversight of parishes in roughly one-third of the diocese) and is a Canon Residentiary of the cathedral.

History

The Archdeacon of Canterbury has an additional role, traditionally serving as the Archbishop of Canterbury's representative at enthronement ceremonies for new diocesan bishops in his province. At these services, the Archdeacon reads the Archbishop's mandate and, taking the new bishop by the hand, conducts him to his episcopal throne.

The archdeaconry and archdeacon of Canterbury have been in constant existence since the 11th century. There was one short-lived attempt to split the role in the 12th century. In modern times, the archdeaconry has been split twice: creating Maidstone archdeaconry in 1841 and Ashford archdeaconry in 2011.

Composition

The archdeaconry covers approximately the north-east corner of the diocese. As of 2012, the archdeaconry of Canterbury consists the following deaneries in the Diocese of Canterbury:

List of archdeacons

High Medieval

Late Medieval

Early modern

Late modern

References

  1. Guérard, Louis (1903). Documents pontificaux sur la Gascogne d'après les archives du Vatican. Pontificat de Jean XXII (1316-1334) (in French). Vol. 2. Paris / Auch: Honoré Champion / Léonce Cocharaux. pp. 95-97.
  2. "Pakington, William" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  3. EDEN. "EDEN, Rt. Rev. George Rodney". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter |accessed= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |othernames= ignored (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. "Gazette". Church Times. No. 7962. 23 October 2015. p. 33. ISSN 0009-658X.
  5. Diocese of Canterbury — Notices about people and places (Accessed 10 January 2016)
  6. Canterbury Cathedral — New Archdeacon of Canterbury (Accessed 8 February 2017)
  7. "Services and Music List July 2022" (PDF). Canterbury Cathedral. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.

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