Church honour for MP

Jun 17 2008 by Liam Murphy, Liverpool Daily Post

BIRKENHEAD MP Frank Field has been appointed a Lay Canon of Chester Cathedral by the Bishop of Chester.

He will be install-ed during Choral Evensong at 5.30pm this Friday, June 20.

The appointment is in recognition of Mr Field’s service to the constituency of Birkenhead, as well as to the Diocese of Chester. He has chaired the Church Conservation Trust since 2001 and is chair of the Cathe-dral Fabrics Com-mission, planning authority for Eng-lish cathdrals. He is also a Patron of the Leveson Centre for the Study of Ageing, Spirituality and Social Policy.