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Home News and Blogs Acting Dean announced for Llandaff Cathedral

Acting Dean announced for Llandaff Cathedral

News Posted: 7 June 2022

The Ven. Michael Komor, Archdeacon of Margam, has been appointed Acting Dean for Llandaff Cathedral.

Mike Komor — The Ven. Michael Komor, Archdeacon of Margam

Announcing the appointment, Bishop of Llandaff June Osborne says, “I am delighted that the Venerable Michael Komor has agreed to take up the role of Acting Dean. This is an important interim appointment which will prepare the way for the next phase of the Cathedral’s future with a new Dean at the helm.

“Both the Residentiary Canons, Mark Preece and Jan van der Lely, have done a first-class job in maintaining the Cathedral’s worshipping life over the last two years. I am deeply grateful to them, and to Gerard Elias for his chairmanship of Chapter in that time.”

The Ven. Michael will take up the role of Acting Dean of Llandaff with immediate effect. The process of appointing a new Dean is underway and is being led by an Advisory Group, appointed by the Chapter, which is also chaired by the Ven. Michael.

Accepting the interim appointment, the Ven. Michael says, “The Cathedral at Llandaff will always have a special place in my heart, as it was under Epstein’s Christ in Majesty that I was ordained both Deacon and Priest.

“I am delighted to take up this opportunity of spending a concentrated period of time at the Cathedral, working alongside clerical colleagues whom I know well and admire greatly, together with fellow Chapter members. I am also very much looking forward to getting to know other people within the wider community of Llandaff’s Cathedral church.”

Michael Komor has lived nearly all his life in the Margam Archdeaconry. After receiving a degree in Applied Social Psychology he married Anne and trained at Chichester Theological College. They have three grown children. He has served in the Deaneries of the Cynon Valley, Vale of Glamorgan, and Bridgend.