Cathedral to get new Boy Bishop

Frazer Haviz will be installed on Sunday afternoon

A new Boy Bishop is to be installed at Hereford Cathedral in a ceremony dating back to the 13th century.

Frazer Haviz, 13, who is from the city and has been the deputy head chorister at the cathedral, will take on the position at a service on Sunday.

He will sit alongside the Bishop for a carol service on 23 December but will relinquish the role five days later.

Canon Andrew Piper, from the cathedral, said Sunday's annual service challenges traditional ideas about authority.

He said: "It acts out the idea that God exalts the humble and meek.

"Frazer has a gentleness and maturity of character that is well beyond his years and highly appropriate to this pastoral office, together (with) a physical size that gives him a commanding presence in the cathedral."

The Choral Evensong service starts at 1530 GMT this Sunday.