Vivianne Faull, who is currently the Dean of Leicester, is to take over as Dean of York in succession to Keith Jones. She will be the first woman to hold the position.

The appointment is an important one as it comes only a few months before the “Minster Revealed” project opens to the public.

Vivianne Faull was educated at The Queen’s School, Chester and St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Ordained deaconess in 1982 and priest in 1994,] she served first at St Matthew and St James, Mossley Hill and then as Chaplain at Clare College, Cambridge. From 1990 to 2000, she was on the staff at Gloucester Cathedral before moving to Leicester. On 13 May 2000, she was installed as Provost of Leicester Cathedral – the first (and, due to the Cathedrals Measure 1999 redesignating all cathedral provosts as deans, only) female cathedral provost in Church of England history. Since later that year, when her job title (but not the essential nature of the role) changed, she has been the Dean of Leicester – with that change of title, she became the first female Dean in the Church of England.