New canons installed in Salisbury

By Mark Jones

Five new Canons to be installed at Salisbury Cathedral

Do you know the difference between a bishop, a vicar and a canon in the church?

Well, if not you will know more after this article about a number of people who are becoming canons in Wiltshire.

Five new canons will be installed in Salisbury Cathedral on Tuesday 13 October.

One of those is Karen Rizzello from St. Bartholomew and All Saints Church in Wootton Bassett, who is also being installed with her vicar.

Full time business woman Karen started her voluntary career at St Bartholomew's as a Church Warden before moving up to Lay Reader and Chair of the Parochial Church Council (PCC) and then server.

She now joins four other new canons taking part in the Evensong service on Tuesday.

All five will be installed by Right Revd Dr David Stancliffe, Bishop of Salisbury.

Karen is being installed as a Lay Canon, which means as a Lay person she can join other Canons to help make decisions.

Each Canon will be given their own stall in the Quire of the Cathedral and she will occupy the Trowbridge stall.

Karen's vicar Revd Thomas Woodhouse, Priest in Charge of Wootton Bassett and Rural Dean of Calne, will also be installed as a Non-Residentiary Canon. He will be occupy the Torleton stall.

Both will then become members of Salisbury Cathedral's College of Canons which oversees activities at the Cathedral and reports on policy decisions made at certain church meetings.

Anyone wanting to go to the Evensong should be at the Cathedral by 5.30pm on Tuesday 13 October.