{"id":148675,"date":"2026-11-10T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148675"},"modified":"2026-11-10T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T22:39:09","slug":"bbc-first-female-dean-of-970-year-old-cathedral-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148675","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) First female Dean of 970-year-old cathedral appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The appointment of the first female Dean of Exeter Cathedral has been announced by Downing Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Very Reverend Arwen Mary Folkes, currently Vicar of St Mary-the-Virgin in Eastbourne, is due to start in her new role in Devon on 9 May 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Folkes was born in Barnstaple in North Devon and baptised in Bideford, before growing up at the Lizard Lighthouse in Cornwall, where her father was one of the last live-in lighthouse keepers for Trinity House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said: &#8220;It seems I have been entrusted with a new lighthouse, and a rather bigger one this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/6qTTr\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First female Dean of 970-year-old cathedral https:\/\/t.co\/7gElus9usu<\/p>&mdash; BBC South West (@BBCSpotlight) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCSpotlight\/status\/2120147943684555174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appointment of the first female Dean of Exeter Cathedral has been announced by Downing Street. The Very Reverend Arwen Mary Folkes, currently Vicar of St Mary-the-Virgin in Eastbourne, is due to start in her new role in Devon on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148675\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,435,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148679,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148675\/revisions\/148679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}