\n Zeb Soanes, the host of Relaxing Evenings on the classical music station, was honoured at a special service on Sunday, November 16 for his “exemplary and unusual service to the cathedral”.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Suffolk-born broadcaster, who has 1.3million weekly listeners and was the voice of BBC Radio 4\u2019s Shipping Forecast for more than 20 years, joins the cathedral\u2019s College of Canons.\n<\/p>\n
\n An active patron of several charities, Mr Soanes was recognised alongside the Reverend Paul Tams, appointed as an honorary canon.\n<\/p>\n
\n Classic FM presenter made canon at St Edmundsbury Cathedral (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n
\n Revd Tams spent 35 years as a teacher in Suffolk before being ordained at St Edmundsbury Cathedral in 1990.\n<\/p>\n
\n He became the rector of Santon Downham with Elveden and Lakenheath in 2017 and is now the assistant rural dean of Mildenhall.\n<\/p>\n
\n The canons\u2019 role is to provide independent reflection, advice and advocacy across the diocese and county.\n<\/p>\n
\n The service also saw the installation of this year\u2019s Order of St Edmund recipient, Valerie Moore.\n<\/p>\n
\n A former headteacher, Ms Moore was recognised for her extensive volunteer work across the cathedral, including as a guide and on the LEGO project, as well as for her fundraising efforts for the cathedral\u2019s link diocese, Kagera in Tanzania.\n<\/p>\n
\n Classic FM presenter made canon at St Edmundsbury Cathedral (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n
\n The Very Reverend Joe Hawes, Dean of St Edmundsbury, said: “Our Feast of Edmund honours are an important part of the cathedral calendar and a service we take great joy in.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It\u2019s our pleasure to welcome two new members to our College of Canons and to highlight such a deserving member of our congregation with the Order of St Edmund.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The new diocesan registrar, Kevin Wilson, was also installed at the service.\n<\/p>\n
\n The event marked a significant moment in the cathedral\u2019s calendar, celebrating individuals who have greatly contributed to the cathedral, the diocese and the wider Suffolk community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zeb Soanes, the host of Relaxing Evenings on the classical music station, was honoured at a special service…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-277520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}