The financial troubles at PeterÂborough Cathedral should not be used as “a stick to beat the rest of the cathedrals with”, the Dean of Lichfield, the Very Revd Adrian Dorber, has declared.
Dean Dorber was reacting to a suggestion, published last week by the Bishop of Peterborough, the Rt Revd Donald Allister, that the independence of cathedrals posed “serious risks” to the reputation of the Church.
The comment came at the end of a legal charge by the Bishop after his visitation of Peterborough CathedÂral. This was prompted by the disÂcovery, in July, of a cashflow crisis at the cathedral, which meant that staff were in imminent danger of not being paid….A loan was secured from the Church Commissioners, but it was anÂÂnounced at the same time that the Dean, the Very Revd Charles Taylor, was resigning.