The Rev Dr Giles Fraser - former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral and the current parish priest at St Mary's in Newington, south London, said Bishop Welby was "the right man for the job".

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Believed to date back to medieval times, it is known to have been a parish church since the 15th Century and became a cathedral in 1914.

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"It's where you get a town of some significance, that isn't a cathedral city, where there's a church in the middle that is much more than a parish church, " he explained.

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