Archdeacon of Sherborne
The Archdeacon of Sherborne is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Salisbury. As such he or she is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy [1] within its four area deaneries: Dorchester, Lyme Bay, Sherborne and Weymouth & Portland.[2] The archdeaconry was created in 1919 from the Archdeaconry of Dorset.
The post is currently held by The Ven. Paul Stanley Taylor.[3]
Archdeacons of Sherborne
- 1916–1919 Frederic Wallis
- 1919–1941 Albert Ernest Joscelyne
- ?–?1961 John Chaloner Chute (died 1961)
- 1961–1967 David Rokeby Maddock (afterwards Bishop of Dunwich, 1967)
- 1967–1984 Edwin James Greenfield Ward
- 1985–1990 John Keith Oliver (afterwards Bishop of Hereford, 1990)
- 1991–2003 Paul Charles Wheatley
- 2004–present Paul Stanley Taylor
Notes
- ^ "ABCD: a basic church dictionary" Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 ISBN 978-1-85311-420-5
- ^ Crockford's on line accessed Friday 17 February 2012 16:32GMT
- ^ Diocesan Web site