Edited sentence: "Dr Sacks' shul" would be a much more appropriate title.In any event, any justification for the Synagogue's spurious claim to be the seat of the Chief Rabbi has now fallen away, since Dr Sacks' retirement and the installation of his successor, who has chosen not to be based at WMA.Indeed,  such a concept is simply not  Jewish  and the  Mrs Proudie like claim seems based  on  the Catholic concept of a bishop's cathedra.The Synagogue was never generally accepted as "the seat of The Chief Rabbi"