St Albans Cathedral, officially the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban but often referred to locally as "the Abbey", is a Church of England cathedral in St Albans, England.
Richard John Carew Chartres, Baron Chartres,, FBS, is a retired senior bishop of the Church of England.
Jeffrey Philip Hywel John is a Church of England priest, who served as the Dean of St Albans from 2004 until 2021. He made headlines in 2003 when he was the first person to have openly been in a same-sex relationship to be nominated as a Church of England bishop. Owing to the consequent controversy he stepped down. In the years since, he has reportedly been considered for at least seven diocesan bishoprics across England, Wales and the Isle of Man.
Christopher William Herbert is a British Anglican bishop. From 1996 to 2009, he was the Bishop of St Albans.
Saint Alban is venerated as the first-recorded British Christian martyr, for which reason he is considered to be the British protomartyr. Along with fellow Saints Julius and Aaron, Alban is one of three named martyrs recorded at an early date from Roman Britain. He is traditionally believed to have been beheaded in Verulamium sometime during the 3rd or 4th century, and his cult has been celebrated there since ancient times.
Philip John Warr Buckler was a dean of Lincoln, a post he has held from 2007 until 2016.
Eric Knightley Chetwode Hamilton was an Anglican bishop. He served as Bishop of Shrewsbury, a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Lichfield, and was then Dean of Windsor from 1944 until his death.
Frederick Edwin Le Grice was an Anglican priest in the latter part of the 20th century.
David John Farmbrough was Bishop of Bedford from 1981 to 1993.
Henry Aylmer Skelton was a bishop in the mid part of the twentieth century.
The Rt Rev Claude Thomas Thelluson Wood was an eminent Bishop in the mid part of the twentieth century.
Edward Lowry Henderson was a priest in the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Walter John Lawrance was a priest in the Church of England at the end of the 19th century and the very first part of the 20th.
Arthur Kenneth Mathews was Dean of St Albans from 1955 until 1963.
He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 11 May 1906 and educated at Monkton Combe School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he met his future brother-in-law Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor through the Balliol Boys' Club, of which they were successively president. He was ordained in 1933. His first post was as a Curate at Penistone after which he was Padre to the Tanker Fleet of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company and then Vicar of Forest Row. When World War II came he enlisted as a Chaplain in the RNVR during which he served on HMS Norfolk and was decorated twice for gallantry - in successful engagements against the German battleships Bismarck and Scharnhorst. When peace returned he was Vicar of Rogate (1946–54) and Rural Dean of Midhurst (1950–54) before his elevation to the Deanery. After this he was Rector of St Peter’s, Peebles (1963–68) and Vicar of Thursley (1968-1976) before retiring in 1976. "A sailor's padre to the end", he died on 18 December 1992.
John Bernard Taylor was a British bishop and theologian who served as Bishop of St Albans.
The Hon. Hugh Geoffrey Dickinson is an English clergyman who was Dean of Salisbury from 1986 until his retirement in 1996.
Charles Hodgson Fowler was a prolific English ecclesiastical architect who specialised in building and, especially, restoring churches.
Cuthbert Aikman Simpson was an Anglican priest and academic. From 1954 to 1959, he was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. From 1959 to 1969, he was Dean of Christ Church, Oxford.
Nicholas Guy Coulton was Provost of Newcastle from 1990 to August 2001 and then, when the office title changed, its Dean until 2003.
Joanne Kelly-Moore is a New Zealand Anglican priest who has been the Dean of St Albans since 2021. She was previously the Dean of Auckland in the Anglican Church of New Zealand from 2010 to 2017, and then Archdeacon of Canterbury in the Church of England.
