Editing Verger (section)

==Modern function==
Some vergers see their role as one of welcoming or hospitality, encompassing duties such as arranging [[wedding]]s and [[funeral]]s or meeting important visitors such as [[bishop]]s.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Nathan |first=Nancy |date=11 Jan 2019 |title=Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/centuries-of-history-come-to-life-on-a-verger-tour-of-westminster-abbey/2019/01/10/a94b44b0-0d1e-11e9-831f-3aa2c2be4cbd_story.html |access-date=2022-06-28 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Vergers at [[Westminster Abbey]], for example, also lead [[Tour guide|guided tours]].<ref name=":1" />

In small churches, the office of the verger is often combined with that of the [[sexton (office)|sexton]], who is responsible for maintaining church buildings and grounds.  In some organizations the functions of the sexton and the verger are performed by the same person. Equally, many churches have neither a verger nor a sexton and these duties fall to the [[churchwarden]]s.<ref name="Clements2018">Clements 2018, p. 48</ref>

In 20th-century debates in the [[Anglican Church of Australia|Anglican Church in Australia]], some clergy argued that women should be allowed to serve as churchwardens because their experience in [[housekeeping]] would lead them to check up on the work of the vergers, indicating that many vergers performed maintenance.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sherlock |first=Peter |date=2008-09-01 |title='Leave it to the Women' The Exclusion of Women from Anglican Church Government in Australia |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/10314610802263299 |journal=Australian Historical Studies |volume=39 |issue=3 |page=297 |doi=10.1080/10314610802263299 |issn=1031-461X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>