Vivienne Faull before moving to Leicester in 2000. 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. In 2002, when her job title (but not the essential nature of the role) changed, she became the Dean of Leicester – and thus, with that change of title, the first female dean in the Church of England. It was announced on 5 July 2012 that Faull was to become Dean of York in late 2012. She
The Venerable very often called "the Venerable Bede" despite having been canonized in 1899. This is also the honorific used for hermits of the Carthusian Order, in place of the usual term of "Reverend". In the Anglican Communion, "The Venerable" (abbreviated as "the Ven.") is the style usually given to an archdeacon. In the Orthodox Church the term "Venerable" is commonly used as the English-language translation of the title given to monastic saints (Greek: "Hosios", Church Slavonic: "Prepodobni"; both Greek and Church Slavonic forms are masculinum). A monastic saint who was martyred for the Orthodox faith is referred to as "Venerable Martyr".