Which was opened first, the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth or the Chester Cathedral?
Chester Cathedral Chester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral and the mother church of the Diocese of Chester. It is located in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England. The cathedral (formerly the abbey church of a Benedictine monastery, dedicated to Saint Werburgh) is dedicated to Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Since 1541 it has been the seat of the Bishop of Chester.
Edward Every He was the second son of Sir Henry Flower Every, 10th Bart, and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1885, after a curacy in West Hartlepool he became Vicar of Seaham then St Cuthbert’s, Gateshead. In 1902 he was appointed Bishop of the Falkland Islands, and he was consecrated bishop by the Archbishop of Canterbury at St Paul's Cathedral on 13 July 1902. In 1910 he became bishop of the Anglican Diocese in Argentina and Eastern South America. In 1937 he returned to England to become Rector of Egginton, and an Assistant Bishop and Honorary Canon of Derby Cathedral. On his death that diocese's bishop added to his obituary in The Times saying "Above all he was, most obviously, one of the saints of the Most High: the trumpets will assuredly have sounded for him on the other side."