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Durham University graduate nominated as new Dean of Exeter
The King has approved the nomination of the Reverend Arwen Caroline Folkes, a Durham University graduate, as Dean of Exeter. The appointment was announced on 10 November 2026.
She is currently Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Eastbourne, in the Diocese of Chichester. She succeeds the Very Reverend Jonathan Desmond Francis Greener, who has resigned.
She holds a BA (Hons) and an MA from Durham University and trained for ministry at Westcott House, Cambridge.
She served her title at St Just in Roseland and St Mawes, in the Diocese of Truro, and was ordained priest in 2017.
In 2019 she was appointed Rector of St Peter's East Blatchington and St Andrew's, Bishopstone, in the Diocese of Chichester. She took up her current role in Eastbourne in 2024.
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