Archdeacon of Salop

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

History

Shropshire was historically split between the diocese of Hereford (under the Archdeacon of Shropshire) and the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield (under the Archdeacon of Salop). The Shropshire archdeaconry in the Hereford diocese included the deaneries of Burford, Stottesdon, Ludlow, Pontesbury, Clun and Wenlock and the Salop archdeaconry in the Coventry and Lichfield diocese the deaneries of Salop and Newport.

In 1876, the archdeaconry of Shropshire became the archdeaconry of Ludlow, with the additional deaneries of Bridgnorth, Montgomery, Bishops Castle, Condover, and Church Stretton, which had been added in 1535. The archdeaconry of Salop, now entirely in the Lichfield diocese, includes the deaneries of Edgmond, Ellesmere, Hodnet, Shrewsbury, Telford, Wem, Whitchurch and Wrockwardine. Part of Welsh Shropshire was included in the diocese of St Asaph until the disestablishment of the Church in Wales (1920), comprising the deanery of Oswestry in the archdeaconry of Montgomery, and two parishes in the deanery of Llangollen and the archdeaconry of Wrexham. Certain parishes in Montgomeryshire chose to remain in the Hereford diocese.

List of archdeacons

High Medieval

bef. 1083–aft. 1087: Herbert Grammaticus
bef. 1105–aft. 1105: Gilbert
c. 1121–1180: Roger (I)
bef. 1180–aft. 1190: Richard Peche (possibly son of the bishop)
c. 1198–1212: Robert de Insula
bef. 1212–aft. 1214: Thomas Nevil
bef. 1215–aft. 1221: Ralph de Maidstone
bef. May 1221–aft. 1 July 1232: Alexander of Swerford
aft. 1232–bef. 1247: Walter of Kirkham
bef. 1247–aft. 1256: Peter de Radnor
bef. 1275–aft. 1275: Roger (II)
bef. 1283–1294 (d.): William de Montfort (also Dean of St Paul's from 1283)

Late Medieval

15 January–bef. 21 January 1304 (d.): Philip de Cornubia
24 March 1304–aft. 1327: Richard de Bernard
29 September 1332–bef. 1339 (d.): Ralph de Normanville
22 January 1339–bef. 1360: William de Preston
14 September 1360 – 4 July 1379 (exch.): William de Shrouesbury
4 July 1379 – 31 May 1398 (exch.): John Knode
31 May 1398–bef. 1399 (d.): Philip Lee
14 March 1399–c. 1412 (exch.): William de Neuport/Newport (became Archdeacon of Carmarthen)
30 August 1402–bef. 1425 (d.): John Howbell
31 October 1425–bef. 1433 (res.): Thomas Chestrefeld or Wursop
17 August 1433 – 20 November 1436 (exch.): Gregory Newport
20 November 1436 – 5 May 1437 (exch.): John Weborn
5 May 1437–bef. 1450 (res.): Thomas Salisbury
22 May 1450–bef. 1464 (d.): Thomas Lye
1 June 1464 – 2 February 1483 (d.): John Fox
?–bef. 1485 (res.): Edmund Hals (became Archdeacon of Derby)
12 October 1485 – 30 January 1500 (d.): Richard Sherborne
?–bef. 1515 (d.): Adam Grafton (became Archdeacon of Stafford)
20 July 1515–bef. 1523 (d.): Joachim Bretunne
bef. 1527–bef. 1536 (res.): Richard Strete
2 April 1536 – 1557 (res.): David Pole (also Archdeacon of Derby from 1542; became Bishop of Peterborough)

Early modern

15 January 1558–?: William Hill
1560–bef. 1579 (d.): Thomas Bolt
26 October 1579 – 1598 (res.): Godfrey Goldsborough (became Bishop of Gloucester)
16 November 1598 – 1605 (res.): Roger Dod (became Bishop of Meath)
1606–bef. 1613 (res.): Valentine Cary (became Dean of St Paul's)
1613–1628 (d.): Thomas Master
10 September 1628–bef. 1642 (d.): William Jeffrey
?–bef. 1663 (d.): William Arnway
11 February 1663–bef. 1681 (d.): Robert Powell
18 July 1681–bef. 1726 (d.): Griffith Vaughan
5 October 1726–?: Samuel Garret
19 July 1732–bef. 1734 (d.): John Holt
13 March 1735 – 29 June 1770 (d.): William Vyse
15 August 1770 – 17 September 1798 (d.): Egerton Leigh (whose father Egerton Leigh had been Archdeacon of Shropshire in Hereford diocese)
17 October 1798 – 24 December 1821 (res.): John Woodhouse (also Dean of Lichfield from 1807)
27 December 1821 – 23 December 1827 (d.): Hugh Owen
28 February 1828 – 3 October 1847 (d.): Edward Bather
15 December 1847 – 23 March 1886 (res.): John Allen

Late modern

1886–1896 (d.): Thomas Lloyd^[1]
1896–1916 (ret.): Charles Maude
December 1916 – 1946 (ret.): Horace Lambart (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[2]
1945–1959 (ret.) Horace Carpenter (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[3]
1959–1979 (ret.): Sidney Austerberry (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[4]
1980–1987 (res.): Bob Jeffery (became Dean of Worcester)^[5]^[6]
1987–1998 (res.): George Frost (became Archdeacon of Lichfield)^[7]
1999–2011 (ret.): John Hall^[8]^[9]
2011–2024 (res.): Paul Thomas^[10] (made to resign after misconduct)^[11]

References

^ "Shropshire Parish Registers". Retrieved 12 April 2014.
^ "Cavan". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2015 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 12 December 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Carpenter, Horace John". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2015 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 12 December 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Austerberry, Ven. Sidney Denham". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2015 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 12 December 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "About Robert Jeffery". Retrieved 22 June 2012.
^ "Jeffery, Robert Martin Colquhoun". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (October 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 12 December 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Frost, Ven. George". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (October 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 12 December 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "New Archdeacon of Salop is named". Shropshire Star. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
^ "Hall, Ven. John Barrie". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (October 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 12 December 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Thomas, Ven. Paul Wyndham". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (October 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 12 December 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Archdeaconry of Salop: A statement from the Bishop of Lichfield". Diocese of Lichfield. 23 March 2024. Archived from the original on 29 March 2024. Retrieved 1 April 2024.

Sources

Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Salop (Chapter). Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 1 (1854 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 573–4 – via Wikisource.
Jones, B. (1964), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, vol. 10, pp. 17–18
Horn, Joyce M. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 10, pp. 12–14

Archdeacons of Salop

High Medieval

Herbert Grammaticus
Gilbert
Roger (I)
Richard Peche
Robert de Insula
Thomas Nevil
Ralph de Maidstone
Alexander de Swereford
Walter of Kirkham
Peter de Radnor
Roger (II)
William de Montfort

Late Medieval

Philip de Cornubia
Richard de Bernard
Ralph de Normanville
William de Preston
William de Shrouesbury
John Knode
Philip Lee
William de Neuport/Newport
John Howbell
Thomas Chestrefeld/Wursop
Gregory Newport
John Weborn
Thomas Salisbury
Thomas Lye
John Fox
Edmund Hals
Richard Sherborne
Adam Grafton
Joachim Bretunne
Richard Strete
David Pole

Early modern

William Hill
Thomas Bolt
Godfrey Goldsborough
Roger Dod
Valentine Cary
Thomas Master
William Jeffrey
William Arnway
Robert Powell
Griffith Vaughan
Samuel Garret
John Holt
William Vyse
Egerton Leigh
John Woodhouse
Hugh Owen
Edward Bather
John Allen

Late modern

Thomas Lloyd
Charles Maude
Horace Lambart
Horace Carpenter
Sidney Austerberry
Bob Jeffery
George Frost
John Hall
Paul Thomas

v t e Diocese of Lichfield
Lichfield Cathedral Bishop's House, Lichfield St Mary's House, Lichfield Area scheme (1992–present)
Office holders	Michael Ipgrave, Bishop of Lichfield Sarah Bullock, area Bishop of Shrewsbury Matthew Parker, area Bishop of Stafford area Bishop of Wolverhampton (vacant) Jan McFarlane, Canon and honorary assistant bishop AEO: the Bishop suffragan of Oswestry & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Dean of Lichfield (vacant) Sue Weller, Archdeacon of Lichfield Julian Francis, Archdeacon of Walsall Megan Smith, Archdeacon of Stoke Archdeacon of Salop (vacant)
Provincial episcopal visitors	Paul Thomas, Bishop suffragan of Oswestry
Historic offices	Archdeacon of Chester (12th century – 1541; erected into Chester diocese) Archdeacon of Stafford (12 C. – 1980; renamed to Lichfield archdeaconry) Archdeacon of Coventry (12 C. – 1837; moved to Worcester then erected into Coventry diocese) Archdeacon of Derby (12th C. – 1884; moved to Southwell then erected into Derby diocese)

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 Wigan and West Lancashire York (West Riding)
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 Harlow 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)