Editing St Paul's Cathedral (section)

==Ministry and functions==
[[File:Operation Banner Service Held at St Pauls Cathedral in 2008 MOD 45151837.jpg|thumb|upright|St Paul's during a special service in 2008]]
St Paul's Cathedral is a busy church with four or five services every day, including [[Matins]], [[Eucharist]] and Evening Prayer or Choral Evensong.<ref>{{cite web |title=Worship – Choral Evensong |url=https://www.stpauls.co.uk/worship-music/worship/choral-evensong |website=St Paul's Cathedral |access-date=12 October 2017 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013013228/https://www.stpauls.co.uk/worship-music/worship/choral-evensong |archive-date=13 October 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> In addition, the cathedral has many special services associated with the City of London, its corporation, guilds and institutions. The cathedral, as the largest church in London, also has a role in many state functions such as the service celebrating the [[Diamond Jubilee]] of Queen Elizabeth II. The cathedral is generally open daily to tourists and has a regular programme of organ recitals and other performances.<ref name=stpauls /> The [[Bishop of London]] is [[Sarah Mullally]], whose appointment was announced in December 2017 and whose enthronement took place in May 2018.

===Dean and chapter===
{{main|Dean and Chapter of St Paul's}}
The [[cathedral chapter]] is currently composed of seven individuals: the dean, three residentiary canons (one of whom is, exceptionally, lay), one "additional member of chapter and canon non-residentiary" (ordained) and two lay canons. Each has a different responsibility in the running of the cathedral.{{sfn|The Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral|2016c}} As of October 2022:{{sfn|The Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral|2016d}}

* Dean: [[Andrew Tremlett]] (since 25 September 2022)<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.stpauls.co.uk/press-release/andrew-tremlett-to-be-next-dean-of-st-pauls |title=Press release |website=Stpauls.co.uk |access-date=28 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928103236/https://www.stpauls.co.uk/press-release/andrew-tremlett-to-be-next-dean-of-st-pauls |archive-date=28 September 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* Precentor: vacant <ref name=may19 />
* Treasurer: vacant
* Chancellor: [[Paula Gooder]] (since 9 May 2019;<ref name=may19 /> [[lay reader]] since 23 February 2019)<ref>{{cite web |title=Service Schedule, February 2019 |url=https://www.stpauls.co.uk/SM4/Mutable/Uploads/medialibrary/Service-Schedule---10th-February-to-9th-March.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529184419/https://www.stpauls.co.uk/SM4/Mutable/Uploads/medialibrary/Service-Schedule---10th-February-to-9th-March.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 May 2019 |date=29 May 2019 |access-date=15 June 2019}}</ref>
* Steward: Neil Evans (since June 2022)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Gillian Bowen and the Reverend Neil Evans appointed to Cathedral Chapter |url=https://www.stpauls.co.uk/news-article/gillian-bowen-and-reverend-neil-evans-appointed-to-cathedral-chapter |access-date=30 September 2022 |website=St Paul's Cathedral |language=en |archive-date=30 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930110219/https://www.stpauls.co.uk/news-article/gillian-bowen-and-reverend-neil-evans-appointed-to-cathedral-chapter |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Additional member of chapter and canon non-residentiary: [[Sheila Watson (priest)|Sheila Watson]] (since January 2017).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stpauls.co.uk/news-press/latest-news/appointment-of-the-venerable-sheila-watson-as-additional-chapter-member-and-canon-non-residentiary-of-st-pauls-cathedral |title=Appointment of The Venerable Sheila Watson as Additional Chapter Member and Canon Non-Residentiary of St Paul's Cathedral – St Paul's Cathedral |website=Stpauls.co.uk |access-date=25 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825192045/https://www.stpauls.co.uk/news-press/latest-news/appointment-of-the-venerable-sheila-watson-as-additional-chapter-member-and-canon-non-residentiary-of-st-pauls-cathedral |archive-date=25 August 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* Lay canon: Pamela (Pim) Jane Baxter<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/489049/NY2016HonoursFullList.pdf |title=Gov.uk |access-date=23 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114132859/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/489049/NY2016HonoursFullList.pdf |archive-date=14 January 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> (since March 2014). Deputy Director at the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]], with experience in opera, theatre and the visual arts.
* Lay canon: Sheila Nicoll (since October 2018). She is Head of Public Policy at [[Schroder Investment Management]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stpauls.co.uk/news-press/latest-news/sheila-nicoll-obe-to-become-lay-canon-at-st-pauls |title=Sheila Nicoll OBE to become Lay Canon at St Paul's – St Paul's Cathedral |website=Stpauls.co.uk |access-date=15 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215155856/https://www.stpauls.co.uk/news-press/latest-news/sheila-nicoll-obe-to-become-lay-canon-at-st-pauls |archive-date=15 February 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* Lay canon: Clement Hutton-Mills (since March 2021). He is also a managing director at [[Goldman Sachs]]. 
* Lay canon: Gillian Bowen (since June 2022). She is chief executive officer of [[YMCA]] London City and North and is a magistrate.<ref name=":0" />

===Minor canons and priest vicar===
{{further|Minor canons of St Paul's}}

===Director of music===
The director of music is [[Andrew Carwood]].<ref name=worship-music /> Carwood was appointed to succeed [[Malcolm Archer]], taking up the post in September 2007.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.stpauls.co.uk/page.aspx?theLang=001lngdef&pointerid=68476HMqL9fUVY6EdZIZLLde5Yov3X30 |title=Appointment of new Director of Music |work=St Paul's Cathedral website, news section |publisher=Dean and Chapter of St Paul's |access-date=23 May 2007 |date=21 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928083431/http://www.stpauls.co.uk/page.aspx?theLang=001lngdef&pointerid=68476HMqL9fUVY6EdZIZLLde5Yov3X30 |archive-date=28 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He is the first non-organist to hold the post since the 12th century.

{{See also|List of musicians at English cathedrals#London, St Paul's Cathedral}}

====Organs====
[[File:St Paul's Cathedral South Organ, London, UK - Diliff.jpg|thumb|upright|The south choir organ]]
An organ was commissioned from [[Bernard Smith (organ builder)|Bernard Smith]] in 1694.{{sfn|Lang|1956|p=171}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stpauls.co.uk/worship-music/music/the-organs-and-bells |title=The Organs & Bells – St Paul's Cathedral |website=Stpauls.co.uk |access-date=15 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527200046/https://www.stpauls.co.uk/worship-music/music/the-organs-and-bells |archive-date=27 May 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1862, the organ from the [[Panopticon of Science and Art]] (the Panopticon Organ) was installed in a gallery over the south transept door.<ref name=npor.org.uk1 /> The Grand Organ was completed in 1872, and the Panopticon Organ moved to the [[Victoria Rooms, Bristol|Victoria Rooms]] in Clifton in 1873.

The Grand Organ is the fifth-largest in Great Britain,{{efn|The largest is at [[Liverpool Cathedral#Music|Liverpool Cathedral]], followed by the [[Royal Albert Hall Organ|Royal Albert Hall]], the [[Royal Festival Hall#Organ|Royal Festival Hall]] and [[St George's Hall, Liverpool#Organ and organists|St George's Hall]].}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.die-orgelseite.de/orgelliste_e.php |access-date=13 August 2019 |title=The world's largest and most famous organs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813200701/https://www.die-orgelseite.de/orgelliste_e.php |archive-date=13 August 2019 |url-status=live |website=Die Orgelseite}}</ref> in terms of number of [[Organ pipe|pipes]] (7,256),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stpauls.co.uk/news-press/news-archive/2012/st-pauls-20-year-pipe-dream-becomes-a-reality |title=St. Paul's |website=stpauls.co.uk |access-date=27 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190527200035/https://www.stpauls.co.uk/news-press/news-archive/2012/st-pauls-20-year-pipe-dream-becomes-a-reality |archive-date=27 May 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> with 5 manuals, 136 ranks of pipes and 137 [[organ stop|stops]], principally enclosed in a case designed in Wren's workshop and decorated by [[Grinling Gibbons]].{{sfn|Summerson|1953|pp=238{{ndash}}240}} Details of the organ can be found online at the [[National Pipe Organ Register]].

===Choir===
St Paul's Cathedral has a full professional choir which sings regularly at services. The earliest records of the choir date from 1127. The choir historically consisted of up to 30 boy choristers, eight probationers, and vicars choral of 12 professional male singers.

In February 2017, the cathedral announced the appointment of the first female vicar choral, Carris Jones (a mezzo-soprano), to take up the role in September 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/28/st-pauls-cathedral-appoints-first-female-chorister-1000-year/ |title=St Paul's Cathedral appoints first female chorister in 1,000-year history |first=Olivia |last=Rudgard |date=28 February 2017 |website=The Telegraph |access-date=13 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019233818/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/28/st-pauls-cathedral-appoints-first-female-chorister-1000-year/ |archive-date=19 October 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39120557 |title=St Paul's Cathedral admits first woman to choir |date=28 February 2017 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516062307/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39120557 |archive-date=16 May 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/01/st-pauls-appoints-first-full-time-female-chorister-in-1000-year-history |title=St Paul's appoints first full-time female chorister in 1,000-year history |first=Tess |last=de la Ware |date=1 March 2017 |website=The Guardian |access-date=13 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425111157/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/01/st-pauls-appoints-first-full-time-female-chorister-in-1000-year-history |archive-date=25 April 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>

During 2022, St Paul's Cathedral announced that it would admit girls to its choir, breaking a tradition stretching back 900 years.<ref>{{cite news |date=5 May 2022 |title=St Paul's Cathedral to admit girls to choir for first time in 900 years |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/05/st-pauls-cathedral-to-admit-girls-to-choir-900-years |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=6 May 2022 |archive-date=5 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220505195742/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/05/st-pauls-cathedral-to-admit-girls-to-choir-900-years |url-status=live|author-first1=Harriet|author-last1=Sherwood}}</ref> On 30 June 2024, when two girls formally joined the cathedral choir as full choristers, having undertaken specialist training in preparation, the Sunday Choral Evensong service officially marked this historic event.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stpauls.co.uk/press-release/girls-join-st-pauls-cathedral-choir-for-first-time-in-900-year-history|title=Girls join St Paul's Cathedral Choir for first time in 900-year history|website=St Paul's Cathedral}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |website=BBC |title=Girls join St Paul's Cathedral choir for first time |date=30 June 2024 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn38gy1zkk5o}}</ref>

During school terms, the choir sings [[Evensong]] six times per week, the service on Mondays being sung by a visiting choir (or occasionally said) and that on Thursdays being sung by the vicars choral alone. On Sundays, the choir also sings at Mattins and the 11:30 am Eucharist.<ref name=worship-music />

Many notable musicians have been organists, choir masters and choristers at St Paul's Cathedral, including the composers [[John Redford]], [[Thomas Morley]], [[John Blow]], [[Jeremiah Clarke]], [[Maurice Greene (composer)|Maurice Greene]] and [[John Stainer]], while well-known performers have included [[Alfred Deller]], [[John Shirley-Quirk]] and [[Anthony Way]] as well as the conductors [[Charles Groves]] and [[Paul Hillier]] and the poet [[Walter de la Mare]].