Why is Westminster Abbey not a cathedral?

In 1560, Elizabeth re-established Westminster as a royal peculiar – a church of the Church of England responsible directly to the sovereign, rather than to a diocesan bishop – and made it the Collegiate Church of St. Peter (that is, a non-cathedral church with an attached chapter of canons, headed by a dean).



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Neither a cathedral nor a parish church, Westminster Abbey is a church owned directly by the British royal family. Since the Christmas Day coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, nearly all English monarchs have been crowned in the abbey.

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