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  1. In education, in universities and medical
  2. schools, the head of administration; in the
  3. colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, the member
  4. of the teaching staff charged with the
  5. maintenance of discipline; in Roman
  6. Catholicism, senior cardinal bishop, head of
  7. the college of cardinals; in the Anglican
  8. Communion, head of the chapter of a cathedral
  9. or collegiate church; a rural dean presides
  10. over a division of an archdeaconry. In the
  11. Roman Catholic Church the dean is the senior
  12. cardinal bishop, head of the college of
  13. cardinals.
  14.