A new Canon has been installed and appointed to the Metropolitan Chapter of Canons.

St Chad’s Cathedral held the Capitular Mass of the Venerable Metropolitan Chapter and the Rite of Installation to a Canonry of the Very Reverend Canon David Hartley on Tuesday 3 June.

Canon David is now part of the Chapter of Canons, who form the governing body of the Cathedral, caring for it and for its liturgical life.

He is also a member of the College of Consultors, who advise the Archbishop about the life and mission of the Archdiocese.

Canon David is the parish priest of St Joseph at Whitnash and the Dean of Banbury and Warwick Deanery. He is also the Catholic chaplain to Warwick Hospital.

The Mass was celebrated by Canon Jonathan Veasey.

During the Mass Canon David made the promise of Obedience and the Profession of Faith.

He ascended the sanctuary and knelt, dressed in the cappa parva (small hooded cape), and was presented with a copy of the Chapter Statutes and formally admitted:

“I now admit you as a member of the Chapter of our Cathedral Church of St Chad with the rights and duties of that office in the name of ✠the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”

Canon David's installation was witnessed by the Melkite Patriarch, Beautitude Youssef Absi, the current patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, was was visiting His Grace, Archbishop Bernard Longley.

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