St Paul's Cathedral is a busy church with four or five services every day, including Matins, Eucharist and Evening Prayer or Evensong. In addition, the cathedral has many special services associated with the City of London, its corporation, guilds and institutions. The cathedral, as the largest church in London, also has a role in many state functions such as the service celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The cathedral is generally open daily to tourists and has a regular programme of organ recitals and other performances.4[38] The Bishop of London is Richard Chartres who was installed in January 1996.

Chapter

The cathedral chapter is composed of the dean, four residentiary canons and (currently) two lay canons, each with a different responsibility in the running of the cathedral.[39]

• Dean: David Ison (since 25 May 2012)[40]
• Chancellor: Mark Oakley (Canon since June 2010; Chancellor since 11 January 2013). Previously Canon Treasurer, Oakley is in charge of the cathedral's educational outreach to schools and the public.[41]
• Precentor: Michael Hampel (since 25 March 2011) is responsible for music and liturgy at the cathedral.[42]
• Treasurer: Philippa Boardman (since May 2013) is responsible for finance and for the cathedral building.[43]
• Canon Pastor: Tricia Hillas (since November 2013) oversees welfare and training with specific focus on marketing, enterprises, communications, HR and development.[44][45]
• Lay Canon (Finance): Gavin Ralston (since February 2010) holds particular responsibility for finance. He is also Global Head of Product and international asset manager at Schroder Investment Management.
• Lay Canon: Pim Baxter[46] (Pamela Jane Baxter; since March 2014) is also Deputy Director at the National Portrait Gallery, with experience in opera, theatre and the visual arts.

Registrar

The Registrar, Emma Davies (September 2015), is the cathedral's principal administrator and lay officer, and assists the cathedral chapter in its work, overseeing more than 150 full-time staff, together with volunteers.[47] She is a solicitor and was a senior civil servant prior to her appointment.[48][49]

Minor Canons and Priest Vicar

There are three full-time clergy working at St Paul's who are part of its ministry and mission team, but are not members of the cathedral chapter. Two are Minor Canons with particular areas of specialist responsibility, including ceremony, music, liturgy and daily services.

• Succentor: Rosemary Morton (since December 2014)
• Sacrist: James Milne (since February 2015).

The Chaplain is responsible for the pastoral care of the cathedral, under the oversight of the Canon Pastor. The role of Chaplain is no longer that of a Minor Canon but is in the newly established category of Priest Vicar.[50][51][52]

• Chaplain: Helen O'Sullivan (since November 2015)[53][54]

Director of Music

The Director of Music is Andrew Carwood.[55] Carwood was appointed to succeed Malcolm Archer as Director of Music, taking up the post in September 2007.[56] He is the first non-organist to hold the post since the 12th century.

Organ

The organ was commissioned from Bernard Smith in 1694. Lang 1956, halaman 171 The current instrument is the third-largest [57] in Great Britain in terms of number of pipes (7,189), with 5 manuals, 189 ranks of pipes and 138 stops, enclosed in an impressive case designed in Wren's workshop and decorated by Grinling Gibbons.[58]

Details of the organ from the National Pipe Organ Register

Choir

St Paul's Cathedral has a choir, largely of men and boys, which sings regularly at services. The earliest records of the choir date from 1127. The present choir consist of up to 30 boy choristers, eight probationers and the Vicars Choral, 12 professional singers, historically men. In February 2017 the cathedral announced the appointment of the first female Vicar Choral, Carris Jones (a mezzo-soprano), to take up the role in September 2017.[59][60][61]

During school terms the choir sings at Evensong five times per week, the service on Mondays being sung by a visiting choir (or occasionally said) and that on Thursdays being sung by the Vicars Choral without the boys. On Sundays the choir also sings at Matins and Eucharist.[62]

Many distinguished musicians have been organists, choir masters and choristers at St Paul's Cathedral, including the composers John Redford, Thomas Morley, John Blow, Jeremiah Clarke and John Stainer, while well known performers have included Alfred Deller, John Shirley-Quirk and Anthony Way as well as the conductors Charles Groves and Paul Hillier and the poet Walter de la Mare.