Archdeacon of Leicester

The Archdeacon of Leicester is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Leicester.

History

The first archdeacon of Leicester is recorded before 1092 – around the time when archdeacons were first appointed in England – in the Diocese of Lincoln. He was one of eight archdeacons appointed by the bishop: Lincoln, Huntingdon, Northampton, Oxford, Buckingham, Bedford and Stow.

In the Victorian era reforms, the archdeaconry became part of Peterborough diocese on 1 May 1839^[1]^[2] and, on 12 November 1926, the modern Diocese of Leicester was founded from Leicester and Loughborough archdeaconries and part of the archdeaconry of Northampton.^[3]

List of archdeacons

High Medieval

bef. 1092–?: Ranulph (first Archdeacon of Leicester)
Godfrey
bef. c. 1129–aft. c. 1134: Walter
bef. c. 1146–1148 (res.): Robert de Chesney
bef. 1150–bef. 1159 (res.): Hugh Barre
bef. 1163–aft. 1177: Baldric de Segillo
c. 1187–1189 (res.): Hamo (afterwards Dean of Lincoln)
bef. c. 1194–1195 (res.): Roger de Rolleston (afterwards Dean of Lincoln)
bef. c. 1198–aft. 1224: Reimund
bef. 1226–aft. 1228: William Blund of Lincoln
bef. 1229–1232 (res.): Robert Grosseteste
1232–1234: William de Dratton
bef. 1235–1252 (d.): John of Basingstoke
1252–bef. 1274: Solomon of Dover
1275–bef. 1295 (d.): Roger de Saxenhurst
16 January 1295 – 16 September 1310 (d.): Roger Martival

Late Medieval

13 October 1310 – 5 October 1346 (d.): Guillaume Cardinal de Farges (cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria Nova)
1346–26 February 1347 (res.): Raynald Orsini
Arnald de Gavarreto was unsuccessfully provided to the archdeaconry in 1347 and was still claiming it – unsuccessfully – in 1355.
1347–bef. 1354 (d.): Henry Chaddesden
12 May 1354 – 1361 (d.): William Doune
bef. 1371–27 August 1372 (d.): Philippe Cardinal de Cabassoles (Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina and Archdeacon of York)
1372–13 August 1379 (d.): Giacomo Cardinal Orsini, Dean of Salisbury (cardinal-deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro)
1380–2 February 1395 (d.): Poncello Orsini (cardinal-priest of San Clemente; papal claimant, never in actual possession)
1390–c. 1390 (res.): John Bottlesham (royal grant)
4 August 1392–bef. 1421: John Elvet
1392–1392 (rev.): Richard Holland (mistaken royal grant; revoked)
bef. 1414–1424 (exch.): Richard Elvet
29 October 1424–bef. 1430: John Legbourne
bef. 1430–aft. 1431: Thomas Barnsley
14 August 1454 – 1458 (res.): Richard Ewen (afterwards Archdeacon of Lincoln)
1458–bef. 1473 (d.): William Witham (also Dean of Arches from 1460 and Dean of Wells from 1467)
1473–bef. 1478: Roger Rotherham
1478–1479 (res.): John Morton
1485–bef. 1508 (d.): Richard Lavender
18 March 1508–bef. 1515: William Spark
1515–bef. 1518: Henry Wilcocks
1518–bef. 1531 (d.): Richard Maudeley

25 March 1531–December 1531 (res.): Stephen Gardiner
14 December 1531 – 1535 (res.): Edward Foxe
9 October 1535 – 1539 (res.): Edmund Bonner
24 September 1539–bef. 1541 (d.): William More, Bishop suffragan of Colchester

Early modern

19 February 1541–bef. 1560 (deprived): Thomas Robertson (deprived; also Dean of Durham from 1558, from which point archdeacon in commendam)^[4]
1560–15 February 1589 (d.): Richard Barber
10 May 1589 – 16 September 1590 (res.): Hugh Blythe
19 April 1591–bef. 1625 (d.): Robert Johnson
1 August 1625–bef. 1631 (d.): Richard Pilkington
21 September 1631–bef. 1641 (d.): William Warr
16 October 1641 – 1661 (res.): Henry Ferne
18 June 1661 – 27 June 1662 (exch.): Robert Hitch (afterwards Archdeacon of the East Riding, 1662 and Dean of York, 1665)
27 June 1662–bef. 1669 (d.): Clement Breton
30 July 1669 – 23 August 1679 (d.): William Owtram
10 September 1679 – 27 August 1683 (d.): Francis Meres
5 September 1683–bef. 1703 (d.): Byrom Eaton
1703–9 May 1715 (d.): John Rogers
17 May 1715 – 18 May 1756 (d.): David Trimnel
7 July 1756 – 29 August 1772 (d.): John Taylor
17 December 1772 – 23 December 1785 (d.): James Bickham
25 January 1786 – 9 March 1812 (d.): Andrew Burnaby
31 March 1812 – 13 November 1830 (d.): Thomas Parkinson
22 January 1831 – 7 April 1863 (d.): Thomas Bonney

Upon the death of Herbert Marsh on 1 May 1839, Leicester archdeaconry become part of the Diocese of Peterborough.

Late modern

1863–1884 (ret.): Henry Fearon
1884–1886 (d.): Assheton Pownall
1886–1899 (ret.): John Mitchinson (former Bishop of Barbados then of the Windward Islands)^[5]
1899–1920 (ret.): John Stocks^[6]
1921–1938 (ret.): Frederick MacNutt^[7]

From 12 November 1926, the archdeaconry formed part of the new Leicester diocese.

1938–1956 (ret.): Cecil Matthews (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[8]
1956–1963 (res.): Irven Edwards^[9]
1963–1980 (ret.): Berkeley Cole (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[10]
1980–1994 (res.): David Silk^[11]
1994–2002 (res.): Mike Edson^[12]
2002–April 2012 (res.): Richard Atkinson^[13]^[14]
2012 – 8 September 2018 (res.): Tim Stratford^[15] (became Dean of Chester)
4 November 2018 – present: Richard Worsfold^[16]

References

Citations

^ "No. 19538". The London Gazette. 5 September 1837. pp. 2334–2337.
^ Robert K. Forrest, 'Marsh, Herbert (1757–1839)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2012 Accessed 31 Aug 2013
^ "No. 33220". The London Gazette. 12 November 1926. pp. 7321–7322.
^ "Archdeacons deprived under Queen Elizabeth" (PDF). Retrieved 10 June 2012.
^ "Mitchinson, Rt. Rev. John". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Stocks, Rev. John Edward". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "MacNutt, Rev. Canon Frederick Brodie". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Matthews, Ven. Cecil Lloyd". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Edwards, Very Rev. Irven David". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Cole, Ven. Ronald Berkeley". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Silk, Rev. (Robert) David". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Edson, Ven. Michael". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Diocese of Leicester – Archdeacon of Leicester to be Bishop of Bedford". Diocese of Leicester. 4 March 2012. Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
^ "Bedford, Bishop Suffragan of". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Diocese of Leicester News". Diocese of Leicester. 2 October 2012. Archived from the original on 3 July 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
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Greenway, Diana E. (1977), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300, vol. 3, pp. 32–35
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Cocks, Terence. "The Archdeacons of Leicester 1092–1992" (PDF). Retrieved 15 January 2012.
Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Leicester . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 59–63 – via Wikisource.

[1] "No. 19538". The London Gazette. 5 September 1837. pp. 2334–2337.

[2] Robert K. Forrest, 'Marsh, Herbert (1757–1839)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2012 Accessed 31 Aug 2013

[3] "No. 33220". The London Gazette. 12 November 1926. pp. 7321–7322.

[4] "Archdeacons deprived under Queen Elizabeth" (PDF). Retrieved 10 June 2012.

[5] "Mitchinson, Rt. Rev. John". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[6] "Stocks, Rev. John Edward". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[7] "MacNutt, Rev. Canon Frederick Brodie". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[8] "Matthews, Ven. Cecil Lloyd". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[9] "Edwards, Very Rev. Irven David". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[10] "Cole, Ven. Ronald Berkeley". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[11] "Silk, Rev. (Robert) David". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[12] "Edson, Ven. Michael". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[13] "Diocese of Leicester – Archdeacon of Leicester to be Bishop of Bedford". Diocese of Leicester. 4 March 2012. Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2013.

[14] "Bedford, Bishop Suffragan of". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 3 September 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[15] "Diocese of Leicester News". Diocese of Leicester. 2 October 2012. Archived from the original on 3 July 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2013.

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v t e Archdeacons of Leicester
High Medieval	Ranulph Godfrey Walter Robert de Chesney Hugh Barre Baldric de Segillo Hamo Roger de Rolleston Reimund of Lincoln Robert Grosseteste William de Dratton John of Basingstoke Solomon of Dover Roger de Saxenhurst Roger Martival
Late Medieval	Guillaume Cardinal de Farges Raynald Orsini Henry Chaddesden William Doune Philippe Cardinal de Cabassoles Giacomo Cardinal Orsini, Dean of Salisbury John Bottlesham John Elvet Richard Elvet John Legbourne Thomas Barnsley Richard Ewen William Witham Roger Rotherham John Morton Richard Lavender William Spark Henry Wilcocks Richard Maudeley Stephen Gardiner Edward Foxe Edmund Bonner William More
Early modern	Thomas Robertson Richard Barber Hugh Blythe Robert Johnson Richard Pilkington William Warr Henry Ferne Robert Hitch Clement Breton William Owtram Francis Meres Byrom Eaton John Rogers David Trimnel John Taylor James Bickham Andrew Burnaby Thomas Parkinson Thomas Bonney
Late modern	Henry Fearon Assheton Pownall John Mitchinson John Stocks Frederick MacNutt Cecil Matthews Irven Edwards Berkeley Cole David Silk Mike Edson Richard Atkinson Tim Stratford Richard Worsfold

v t e Diocese of Leicester
Leicester Cathedral Bishop's Lodge, Knighton Bishop's House, Rothley St Martin's House, Leicester Launde Abbey
Office holders	Martyn Snow, Bishop of Leicester Saju Muthalaly, Bishop suffragan of Loughborough AEO: Bishop suffragan of Richborough (vacant) & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Karen Rooms, Dean of Leicester Claire Wood, Archdeacon of Loughborough Richard Worsfold, Archdeacon of Leicester
Historic offices	Provost of Leicester (1927–2000; see Dean of Leicester) Assistant Bishop of Leicester (1987–2017; see Bishop of Loughborough)

v t e Diocese of Peterborough
Peterborough Cathedral Bishop's Lodging, The Palace, Peterborough The Palace, Peterborough
Office holders	Debbie Sellin, Bishop of Peterborough John Holbrook, Bishop of Brixworth AEO: Bishop suffragan of Richborough (vacant) & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Chris Dalliston, Dean of Peterborough Richard Ormston, Archdeacon of Northampton Alison Booker, Archdeacon of Oakham
Historic offices	Bishop suffragan of Leicester (1888–1927; Diocese of Leicester erected) Archdeacon of Leicester (1837–1926; became Diocese of Leicester) Archdeacon of Loughborough (1921–1926; became Diocese of Leicester)

v t e Diocese of Lincoln
Lincoln Cathedral Edward King House Bishop's Palace, Lincoln (medieval & 19th century – 1948) Buckden Palace (12th century – 1841) Riseholme Hall (1843–1888) Bishop's House, Lincoln (1948–2011) 5-bed bishop's house (since 2011) Area scheme (2010–2013)
Office holders	Stephen Conway, Bishop of Lincoln David Court, Bishop suffragan of Grimsby Nicholas Chamberlain, Bishop suffragan of Grantham AEO: Bishop suffragan of Richborough (vacant) & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Simon Jones, Dean of Lincoln Justine Allain Chapman, Archdeacon of Boston Gavin Kirk, Archdeacon of Lincoln Aly Buxton, Archdeacon of Stow and Lindsey
Selected deaneries	Deanery of Christianity Deanery of Lafford
Historic offices	Bishop of Nottingham (1870–1893) Archdeacon of Huntingdon (c. 1075–1837; moved to Ely) Archdeacon of Northampton (1092–1541; became Peterborough) Archdeacon of Oxford (c. 1092–1541; became Oxford) Archdeacon of Bedford (1092–1837; moved to Oxford) Archdeacon of Buckingham (1092–1837; moved to Oxford) Archdeacon of Leicester (1092–1837; moved to Peterborough) Archdeacon of Nottingham (1837–1884; moved to Southwell) Archdeacon of Lindsey (1933–1994; merged back to Stow)