The Revd Flora Winfield is the new canon pastor at Winchester Cathedral. She will be installed in September.

Flora Winfield will take forward the work which was begun by her predecessor, Canon Philip Morgan, before his retirement in May 2001.

She will encourage and co-ordinate the work of the Cathedral's many staff and volunteers in the promotion of visits and the care of visitors.

She will also understudy and then take on the task of supporting, encouraging and helping to develop the educational side of the Cathedral's work, for adults as well as children, and be responsible for encouraging the pastoral care work of the Cathedral community.

Flora, who is 38, was ordained in 1989 to serve in a parish of 45,000 in Milton Keynes. She was based in a council estate where there was no church. Ecumenical work in Milton Keynes was no add-on to parish life, but fundamental to the way the Christian Church sought to serve the new town and its community.

Flora Winfield has been an associate chaplain of Mansfield College, Oxford and is also chaplain to 151 Regiment Royal Logistics Corps (TA).

She is married to the Revd Jonathan Gough, who, as an Army chaplain, served with British forces in Northern Ireland and Bosnia. He now serves on the Archbishop's staff at Lambeth.

Flora Winfield's appointment is the first to be made by the Bishop of Winchester under new Cathedral statutes. It is a leasehold appointment for seven years with the possibility of an extension for a further three.

Speaking of the appointment, The Dean of Winchester, The Very Revd Michael Till, said: "We look forward to Flora's arrival as the first of a new kind of Cathedral canon and believe she will have much to contribute to the continuing development of our ministry as we seek to be faithful to Christ in the changing circumstances of the 21st century."