Archdeacon of Norwich

Church of England ecclesiastical office

The Archdeacon of Norwich is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Norwich, who exercises supervision of clergy and responsibility for church buildings within the geographical area of her or his archdeaconry.

## History

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The ancient Archdeaconry of Norwich has been an ecclesiastical jurisdiction within the Diocese of Norwich since its creation around 1100 (925 years ago) (1100) – at which time the first archdeacons were being appointed across the nation.

## List of archdeacons

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### High Medieval

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Diocesan archdeacons:

Four archdeacons occur in records but cannot be clearly identified with a particular territory:

* bef. 1086–aft. 1107: Geoffrey
* bef. 1107–aft. 1114: Alfred
* bef. 1101–aft. 1115: Osbern
* bef. 1111–aft. 1115: Walter

Archdeacons of Norwich:

* bef. 1127–aft. 1148: William (I)
* aft. 1146: Ralph
* bef. 1161–aft. 1164: Philip
* bef. 1168–aft. 1178: William (II)
* bef. 1182–aft. 1198: Thomas
* 1200–1225 (res.): Geoffrey de Burgh
* 1228–1229 (res.): Luke the chaplain (became Archbishop of Dublin)
* 1229–aft. 1238: John of Ferentino
* bef. 1248–aft. 1252: William de Suffield
* c. 1253 & c. 1255: post not vacant
* bef. 1273–aft. 1289 (res.): Thomas de Skerning (became Archdeacon of Suffolk)

### Late Medieval

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* 4 February 1302 – 1324 (res.): William de Knapton (became Archdeacon of Suffolk)
* 16 April 1324–bef. 1328 (res.): Roger de Snetisham
* 8 December 1328 – 1340 (res.): William Bateman
* 1340–1347 (res.): Thomas Fastolf
* January 1347–bef. 1349: Hamo de Belers
* February 1347–bef. May 1347 (rev.): Thomas de Bradwardine (ineffective royal grant)
* May 1347–?: John Berenger (ineffective royal grant)
* 27 August 1349 – 1355 (d.): Richard Lyng
* 9 April 1355–bef. 1361 (d.): Richard de Norwico
* 17 October 1361 – 27 March 1387 (exch.): William Swynflet
* 27 March 1387–aft. 1801: John Derlyngton
* 17 November 1395: John de Middleton (ineffective royal grant)
* November 1406–bef. November 1407 (res.): Robert Wolveden
* 12 November 1407–bef. 1419 (d.): William Westacre
* 11 April 1419 – 1426 (d.): Henry Kays
* bef. 1428–aft. 1455: Richard Cawdray
* bef. 1465–1459 (res.): John Hales
* bef. 1461–bef. 1462 (res.): John Morton
* bef. 1463–aft. 1463: Vincent Clement
* bef. 1472–3 January 1477 (exch.): John Morton (again; also Archdeacon of Winchester from 1475 and of Berks from 1476)
* 3 January 1477–aft. 1483: Thomas Marke
* bef. 1484–1497 (res.): Nicholas Goldwell (became Archdeacon of Suffolk)
* 20 April 1497–bef. 1509 (res.): Robert Honywood
* 14 June 1509–bef. 1517 (d.): John Ednam
* 5 February 1517 – 1522 (res.): William Stillington (became Archdeacon of Norfolk)

* 9 April 1522–bef. 1528 (res.): Thomas Larke
* 26 June 1528–July 1543 (d.): George Wyndham
* 25 November 1543–bef. 1557 (d.): Thomas Cornwalleys

### Early modern

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* 16 October 1557–bef. 1571 (d.): Richard Underwood
* 15 February 1572 – 1576 (d.): Thomas Roberts (bishop's grant)
* bef. 1572 (disp.): John Rugge (ineffective bishop's grant)
* 1 August 1573 (disp.): George Gardiner (disputed queen's grant; Dean of Norwich from November 1573)
* 9 August 1581 – 4 September 1604 (d.): John Freake
* 12 September 1604–bef. 1618 (d.): Thomas Jegon
* 13 April 1618–bef. 1652 (d.): Andrew Bing
* 18 October 1660 – 31 March 1668 (d.): William Gery
* 20 April 1668–?: John Reynolds
* 8 June 1676 – 12 March 1694 (d.): John Conant
* 19 April 1694 – 1 April 1720 (d.): John Jeffery
* 5 May 1720–bef. 1722 (res.): William Trimnel (became Dean of Winchester)
* 22 February 1722 – 19 May 1742 (d.): Christopher Clarke
* 13 July 1742–bef. 1744 (res.): Matthew Postlethwayte
* 11 October 1744 – 13 June 1782 (d.): John Berney
* 15 June 1782–bef. 1814 (res.): William Yonge
* 22 November 1814 – 10 September 1844 (d.): Henry Bathurst
* 23 September 1844 – 29 March 1857 (d.): John Collyer
* 1 July 1857 – 27 March 1868 (d.): Robert Hankinson

### Late modern

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* 1868–7 January 1878 (d.): Augustus Hopper[1]
* 1878–1910: Thomas Perowne (died 1913)[2]
* 1910–24 February 1918 (d.): Frederick Westcott[3]
* 1918–1920 (res.): Charles Lisle Carr (became Archdeacon of Sheffield)[4]
* 1920–1938: George MacDermott[5]
* 1937–1954: Thomas Perowne (died 1954) (son of the above)[6]
* 1954–1961 (ret.): Robert Meiklejohn (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)[7]
* 1961–1973 (res.): Aubrey Aitken (became Bishop–Archdeacon of Lynn)[8]
* 1973–1981 (res.): Timothy Dudley-Smith (became Bishop of Thetford)[9]
* 1981–1993 (res.): Michael Handley (became Archdeacon of Norfolk)[10]
* 1994–2008 (ret.): Clifford Offer[11]
* 2009–29 June 2016 (res.) Jan McFarlane (became Bishop of Repton)[12][13]
* 13 November 2016 - 1 April 2022 (res.): Karen Hutchinson[14][15]
* 1 October 2022 - present: Keith James[16]

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## References

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1. ^ Venn, John. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students ..., Volume 2. p. 440.
2. ^ "Perowne, Thomas Thomason". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 31 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. ^ "Westcott, Frederick Brooke". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 31 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
4. ^ "Carr, Charles Lisle". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 31 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
5. ^ "Mac Dermott, George Martius". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 31 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
6. ^ "Perowne, Thomas John". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 31 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
7. ^ "Meiklejohn, Robert". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 31 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
8. ^ "Aitken, William Aubrey". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 31 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
9. ^ "Dudley-Smith, Timothy". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 31 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
10. ^ "Handley, (Anthony) Michael". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 31 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
11. ^ "Offer, Clifford Jocelyn". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 31 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
12. ^ "McFarlane, Janet Elizabeth". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 31 July 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
13. ^ Twitter — Adrian Harris (Accessed 29 June 2016)
14. ^ "New Archdeacon of Norwich and Warden of Readers Announced". Diocese of Norwich. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
15. ^ "Lay Ministry gets a new Diocesan Champion". Diocese of Salisbury. 8 December 2021. Archived from the original on 1 January 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
16. ^ "Notices for Sunday 25 September 2022" (PDF). Norwich Cathedral. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2022.

## Sources

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* Greenaway, Diana E. (1971), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300, vol. 2, pp. 62–64
* Jones, B. (1963), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, vol. 4, pp. 26–28
* Horn, Joyce M. (1992), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 7, pp. 44–46

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Archdeacons of Norwich

High Medieval|

* William (I)
* Ralph
* Philip
* William (II)
* Thomas
* Geoffrey de Burgh
* Luke the chaplain
* John of Ferentino
* William de Suffield
* post not vacant
* Thomas de Skerning

Late Medieval|

* William de Knapton
* Roger de Snetisham
* William Bateman
* Thomas Fastolf
* Hamo de Belers
* Thomas de Bradwardine
* John Berenger
* Richard Lyng
* Richard de Norwico
* William Swynflet
* John Derlyngton
* John de Middleton
* Robert Wolveden
* William Westacre
* Henry Kays
* Richard Cawdray
* John Hales
* John Morton
* Vincent Clement
* John Morton (again)
* Thomas Marke
* Nicholas Goldwell
* Robert Honywood
* John Ednam
* William Stillington
* Thomas Larke
* George Wyndham
* Thomas Cornwalleys

Early modern|

* Richard Underwood
* Thomas Roberts
* John Rugge
* George Gardiner
* John Freake
* Thomas Jegon
* Andrew Bing
* William Gery
* John Reynolds
* John Conant
* John Jeffery
* William Trimnel
* Christopher Clarke
* Matthew Postlethwayte
* John Berney
* William Yonge
* Henry Bathurst
* John Collyer
* Robert Hankinson

Late modern|

* Charles Wodehouse
* Augustus Hopper
* Thomas Perowne (father)
* Frederick Westcott
* Charles Lisle Carr
* George MacDermott
* Thomas Perowne (son)
* Robert Meiklejohn
* Aubrey Aitken
* Timothy Dudley-Smith
* Michael Handley
* Clifford Offer
* Jan McFarlane
* Karen Hutchinson
* Keith James

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Diocese of Norwich

* Norwich Cathedral
* Bishop's House, Norwich
* Diocesan House, Norwich

Office holders|

* Graham Usher, Bishop of Norwich
* Jane Steen, Bishop suffragan of Lynn
* Ian Bishop, Bishop suffragan of Thetford
* AEO: Luke Irvine-Capel, Bishop suffragan of Richborough & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet
* Andrew Braddock, Dean of Norwich
* Steven Betts, Archdeacon of Norfolk
* Keith James, Archdeacon of Norwich
* Catherine Dobson, Archdeacon of Lynn

Historic offices|

* Bishop suffragan of Ipswich (1899–1909)
* Archdeacon of Suffolk (12th century–1914; formed Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich)
* Archdeacon of Sudbury (12th century–1837; transferred to Ely)

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Archdeacons in the Church of England

Current|

| northern
province|

* Auckland
* Blackburn
* Bolton
* Bradford
* Carlisle
* Chester
* Cleveland
* Doncaster
* Durham
* East Riding (York)
* Halifax
* Lancaster
* Leeds
* Lindisfarne
* Liverpool
* Knowsley and Sefton
* Macclesfield
* Man
* Manchester
* Newark
* Nottingham
* Northumberland
* Pontefract
* Richmond and Craven
* Rochdale
* St Helens and Warrington
* Salford
* Sheffield and Rotherham
* Stoke
* Sunderland
* Walsall
* West Cumberland
* Westmorland and Furness
* York (West Riding)

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southern
province|

* Ashford
* Aston
* Barnstaple
* Barking
* Bath
* Bedford
* Berkshire
* Birmingham
* Bodmin
* Boston
* Bournemouth
* Brighton & Lewes
* Bristol
* Bromley & Bexley
* Buckingham
* Cambridge
* Canterbury
* Chelmsford
* Charing Cross ("Two Cities")
* Cheltenham
* Chichester
* Colchester
* Cornwall
* Coventry ("Archdeacon Pastor")
* Croydon
* Derby City and South Derbyshire
* Derbyshire Peak and Dales
* Dorchester
* Dorking
* Dorset
* Dudley
* East Derbyshire
* Eastern Archdeaconry (Europe)
* Exeter
* France
* Germany and Northern Europe
* Gibraltar
* Gloucester
* Hackney
* Hampstead
* Hastings
* Hereford
* Hertford
* Horsham
* Huntingdon and Wisbech
* Ipswich
* Isle of Wight
* Italy and Malta
* Lambeth
* Leicester
* Lewisham & Greenwich
* Lichfield
* Lincoln
* London
* Loughborough
* Ludlow
* Lynn
* Maidstone
* Malmesbury
* The Meon
* Middlesex
* Norfolk
* North West Europe
* Northampton
* Northolt
* Norwich
* Oakham
* Oxford
* Plymouth
* Portsdown
* Reigate
* Rochester
* St Albans
* Salop/Shropshire (Lichfield diocese)
* Sarum
* Sherborne
* Southend
* Southwark
* Stansted
* Stow and Lindsey
* Sudbury
* Suffolk
* Surrey
* Switzerland
* Taunton
* Tonbridge
* Totnes
* Wandsworth
* Warwick ("Archdeacon Missioner")
* Wells
* West Ham
* Westminster
* Wilts
* Winchester
* Worcester

non-territorial|

* Military archdeacons: Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force
* Prison Service
* "Archdeacon Missioner" (see Warwick) & "Archdeacon Pastor" (see Coventry)
* Rural Mission (Eds & Ips diocese)

Former|

| England|

* Basingstoke
* Bromley
* Chesterfield
* Cirencester
* Craven
* Derby
* Ely
* Essex
* Furness
* Generous Giving and Stewardship (York diocese)
* Halifax (old)
* Harlow
* Huddersfield
* Huntingdon
* Kingston-on-Thames
* Lewes
* Lewes & Hastings
* Lewisham
* Lindsey
* Mission Resources (Leeds diocese)
* North Wilts
* Portsmouth
* Richmond
* Ripon
* Salisbury
* Shropshire/Salop (Hereford diocese)
* Stafford
* Stow
* Swindon
* Warrington
* Westmorland
* Wigan and West Lancashire
* Winchester (ancient)
* Wisbech

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* Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
* Europe
* Italy
* Malta
* Northern France
* the Riviera
* Scandinavia
* Scandinavia and Germany
* South-Eastern Europe
* Spain (or the Peninsula) and North Africa

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