Archdeacon of Leicester

TheArchdeaconof Leicesteris a senior ecclesiastical officer in theChurch of EnglandDiocese of Leicester.

History

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

In theVictorian erareforms, the archdeaconry became part ofPeterborough dioceseon 1 May 1839and, on 12 November 1926, the modernDiocese of Leicesterwas founded from Leicester and Loughborough archdeaconries and part of the archdeaconry of Northampton.

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(afterwardsDean 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-deaconofSanta Maria Nova)
• 1346–26 February 1347 (res.):Raynald Orsini
• Arnald de Gavarretowas 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 SabinaandArchdeacon of York)
• 1372–13 August 1379 (d.):Giacomo Cardinal Orsini,Dean of Salisbury (cardinal-deacon ofSan Giorgio in Velabro)
• 1380–2 February 1395 (d.):Poncello Orsini(cardinal-priestofSan 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(afterwardsArchdeacon of Lincoln)
• 1458–bef. 1473 (d.):William Witham(alsoDean of Archesfrom 1460 andDean of Wellsfrom 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; alsoDean of Durhamfrom 1558, from which point archdeaconin commendam)
• 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(afterwardsArchdeacon of the East Riding,1662 andDean 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 ofHerbert Marshon 1 May 1839, Leicester archdeaconry become part of theDiocese of Peterborough.

Late modern

• 1863–1884 (ret.):Henry Fearon
• 1884–1886 (d.):Assheton Pownall
• 1886–1899 (ret.):John Mitchinson(formerBishop of Barbadosthenof the Windward Islands)
• 1899–1920 (ret.):John Stocks
• 1921–1938 (ret.):Frederick MacNutt

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

• 1938–1956 (ret.):Cecil Matthews(afterwards archdeacon emeritus)
• 1956–1963 (res.):Irven Edwards
• 1963–1980 (ret.):Berkeley Cole(afterwards archdeacon emeritus)
• 1980–1994 (res.):David Silk
• 1994–2002 (res.):Mike Edson
• 2002–April 2012 (res.):Richard Atkinson
• 2012 – 8 September 2018 (res.):Tim Stratford(becameDean of Chester)
• 4 November 2018 – present:Richard Worsfold

References

Sources

• Greenway, Diana E. (1977),Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300,vol. 3, pp. 32–35
• King, H.P.F. (1962),Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541,vol. 1, pp. 12–13
• Horn, Joyce M.; Smith, David M. (1999),Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857,vol. 9, pp. 18–20
• Horn, Joyce M. (1996),Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857,vol. 8, p. 124
• Cocks, Terence."The Archdeacons of Leicester 1092–1992"(PDF).Retrieved15 January2012.
• Le Neve, John;Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus(1854).Archdeacons of Leicester.Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 2. Oxford:Oxford University Press.pp.59–63– viaWikisource.