UK: Bishops given power to choose their deans
Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent of The Times
October 16, 2007

In one of the biggest shake-up to cathedral management for decades, diocesan bishops are for the first time to be given the power to choose the dean of their cathedrals.

The change threatens to shift dramatically the balance of ecclesiastical power in dioceses, where Deans and Bishops jealously guard the privileges and responsibilities of their separate empires.
Once installed deans are, and will remain, masters of all they survey, particularly in the old-foundation cathedrals that did not develop from former parish churches.

Bishops cannot preach in their cathedrals without invitation from the Dean, and when they are consecrated they have to knock three times on the cathedral door with their staff before they can be granted admission. the rest