Archdeacon of London

Senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England

The Archdeacon of London is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England. They are responsible for the eastern Archdeaconry (the Archdeaconry of London) of the Two Cities (London and Westminster) in the Diocese of London, an area without area bishop and, rather, overseen by the diocesan Bishop of London. The immediate western counterpart in this area is the Archdeacon(ry) of Charing Cross.

Since 1989, the churches of this supervisory cleric are the numerous remaining churches of the City of London. Those of the Archdeacon of Charing Cross are the relatively few churches, but much more heavily populated zone that is the City of Westminster.

History

Before the 20th century, the early medieval-founded London archdeaconry included parts of the East End as well as the City of London. The extent of the archdeaconry was reduced in 1912 (with the creation of the Archdeaconry of Hampstead) and in 1951 (with the creation of the Archdeaconry of Hackney) then latest boundary changes with the creation of the Archdeaconry of Charing Cross in 1989 saw the archdeaconry become coterminous with the limits of the City of London.

Archdeacons of Charing Cross

This archdeaconry, comprising the City of Westminster, was created shortly before Klyberg's appointment in June 1989.^[1] The archdeacon serves directly under the Bishop of London, who takes direct responsibility for the Two Cities area since there is no area bishop.

On 16 June 2015, it was announced that from 1 January 2016 the Archdeacon of London would take responsibility for the whole Two Cities area; a part-time Associate Archdeacon would also work across both.^[2] Lain-Priestley was thus collated to the Charing Cross archdeaconry,^[3]^[4] and became known as the Archdeacon for the Two Cities.^[5] Lain-Priestley resigned this on 31 December 2018 to become an Adviser to the Bishop of London.^[6]

As Archdeacon of Charing Cross since 2020, Atkinson was archdeacon full-time;^[7] in June 2023 it was announced that Atkinson was to become Bishop of Bradwell (an area bishop in the Diocese of Chelmsford) from "autumn" 2023.^[8] On 8 January 2024, it was announced that Katherine Hedderly is to become Archdeacon of Charing Cross "after Easter".^[9]

List of archdeacons

High Medieval

?–bef. 1096 (d.): Edward
bef. 1102–aft. 1114: Reinger^{[N 1]}
bef. 1127–aft. 1152: William de Beaumis (son of Richard de Beaumis)
bef. 1154–aft. 1157 (res.): Hugh de Mareni
bef. 1162–aft. 1189: Nicholas
bef. 1192–aft. 1194: Peter de Waltham
bef. 1196–bef. 1199 (res.): Alard de Burnham
bef. 1202–bef. 1212 (d.): Peter of Blois
bef. 1213–bef. 1214: Walter
bef. 1214–aft. 1215: Gilbert de Plesseto
bef. 1217–aft. 1223: William of Sainte-Mère-Eglise
bef. 1225–bef. 1231 (res.): Geoffrey de Lucy
bef. 1229–aft. 1234: William de Rising
bef. 1235–aft. 1261 (res.): Peter de Newport
bef. 1263–aft. 1268 (res.): John Chishull
bef. 1272–aft. 1275: William Passemer
bef. 1278–aft. 1280: Geoffrey de Mortuo Mari
bef. 1281–1282 (res.): Richard Swinefield
bef. 1285–aft. 1290: Robert de Ros
bef. 1294–aft. 1299: Richard de Gravesend

Late Medieval

bef. 1302–bef. 1308 (d.): John de Bedford
?–bef. 1305 (res.): John de Sancto Claro
Peter de Dene (disputed with Bedford)
1308–bef. 1320 (d.): Bego de Cavomonte
bef. 1309–bef. 1311 (d.): Reginald de Sancto Albano
1320–bef. 1323 (res.): Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord
bef. 1321–bef. 1324: Richard de Aston
bef. 1323–bef. 1332 (d.): Pontius de Podio Barzaco
1332–aft. 1337: Itherius de Concoreto
13 September 1338–?: Edmund Howard
21 March 1339 – 1347 (res.): John of Thoresby
bef. 1350–1354 (res.): Richard Kilvington^[10]
1354–?: Peter Cardinal du Cros (also Cardinal-priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino)
1354–9 February 1356 (exch.): James de Beaufort
9 February 1356 – 1361 (res.): John Barnet
15 October–October 1361 (d.): Fortanerius Vassalli (also Patriarch of Grado)
26 March 1362–aft. 1372: Adam de Hertington
bef. 1383–bef. 1397 (d.): Thomas Baketon
10 February 1397 – 1400 (res.): Thomas Stowe
12 November 1400 – 1422 (res.): Reginald Kentwood
16 March 1422–bef. 1431 (res.): John Snell
28 January 1431 – 23 February 1443 (exch.): Richard Moresby
23 February 1443–bef. 1466 (d.): William Fallan
bef. 1469–1482 (res.): Richard Martyn (also Archdeacon of Hereford from bef. 1478 and Archdeacon of Berkshire from 1478; became Bishop of St David's)
22 June 1482–bef. 1490 (res.): John de Gigliis
16 November 1490–bef. 1502 (res.): John Forster
3 September 1502–aft. 1510: Pedro de Ayala

bef. 1510–bef. 1514 (res.): William Horsey
28 March 1514–bef. 1526 (d.): John Young, suffragan bishop (also Dean of Chichester from 1521)
29 March 1526–bef. 1529 (d.): Geoffrey Wharton
30 October 1529–bef. 1533 (exch.): William Clyff
5 August 1533–bef. 1534 (res.): Thomas Bedyll
19 December 1534–July 1543 (d.): Richard Gwent

Early modern

23 July–October 1543 (res.): Edward Moylle
29 October 1543 – 1554 (res.): John Wymmesley
27 April 1554 – 23 October 1559 (deprived): John Harpsfield (deprived;^[11] also Dean of Norwich from 1558)
1559–bef. 1591 (d.): John Mullins
1 June 1591–bef. 1626 (d.): Theophilus Aylmer (son of John Aylmer)
23 February 1626 – 19 September 1662 (d.): Thomas Paske
11 October 1662–bef. 1664 (res.): John Dolben
27 May 1664 – 1676 (res.): Thomas Lamplugh (also Dean of Rochester from 1673)
27 April 1677 – 1689 (res.): Edward Stillingfleet
1689–1691 (res.): Thomas Tenison
1692–9 October 1731 (d.): William Stanley
23 October 1731 – 15 June 1742 (d.): Robert Tyrwhit
12 July 1742 – 22 April 1764 (d.): Edward Cobden
24 April 1764 – 5 September 1770 (d.): John Jortin
29 September 1770 – 1775 (res.): Anthony Hamilton
22 February 1775 – 1789 (res.): Richard Beadon
1789–bef. 1813 (res.): William Bingham
31 December 1813–bef. 1842 (res.): Joseph Pott
4 November 1842 – 27 November 1870 (d.): William Hale

Late modern

March 1871 – 11 August 1884 (d.): Piers Claughton^[12]
1884 – 1889 (ret.): Edwin Gifford^[13]
1889 – 1911 (res.): William Sinclair^[14]
1911 – 1930 (ret.): Ernest Holmes^[15]
1930 – 1947 (ret.): Ernest Sharpe^[16]
1947 – 1961 (res.): Oswin Gibbs-Smith^[17] (afterwards Dean of Winchester, 1961)
1962 – 1963 (res.): George Appleton^[18]
1963 – 1967 (res.): Martin Sullivan^[19]
1967 – 1978 (ret.): Sam Woodhouse (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[20]
1978 – 10 November 1986 (d.): Frank Harvey^[21]
1987 – 1999 (res.): George Cassidy^[22]
1999 – 2009 (ret.): Peter Delaney (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[23]
26 July 2009 – 31 July 2014 (ret.): David Meara (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[24]^[25]^[26]
11 September 2014 – 30 June 2015: Nick Mercer, Vicar General and acting archdeacon
1 July 2015 – 6 January 2016: Nick Mercer, Vicar General^[27]^[28]
1 January 2016 – present: Luke Miller^[2] (working across both archdeaconries)

Archdeacons of Charing Cross

1989 – 1996 (ret.): John Klyberg, Bishop suffragan of Fulham (became a Roman Catholic priest and prelate of honour)^[29]^[30]
1996 – 31 December 2014 (ret.): Bill Jacob^[31]
1 January 2016 – 31 December 2018 (res.):^[6] Rosemary Lain-Priestley, Associate Archdeacon^[2] / Archdeacon for the Two Cities^[5] (working across both archdeaconries)
2017 – 2019: Paul Thomas, Acting Archdeacon of Charing Cross^[32]
23 March 2020 – 29 September 2023: Adam Atkinson^[33]^[34] (became Bishop of Bradwell)
"after Easter" 2024 onwards: Katherine Hedderly (announced)^[9]

Notes

^ Reigner is not recorded with the title Archdeacon of London; rather the nature of his post can be deduced.

References

^ "Archdeaconry of Charing Cross". Church Times. No. 6594. 30 June 1989. p. 3. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 4 January 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
^ ^a ^b ^c Diocese of London — Archdeacons in the Two Cities (Accessed 24 June 2015)
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory — Archdeaconry of Charing Cross (Accessed 31 October 2017)
^ Oriel College — Sunday Choral Evensong, Seventh Week (Accessed 31 October 2017)
^ ^a ^b Diocese of London — Directory, Rosemary Lain-Priestley (Accessed 29 July 2017)
^ ^a ^b "Bishop of London appoints new advisers". 17 December 2018.
^ "Two new Archdeacons for the Diocese of London". 6 April 2020.
^ "Adam Atkinson announced as the Next Bishop of Bradwell". Diocese of Chelmsford. 19 June 2023. Archived from the original on 20 June 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Katherine Hedderly announced as the next Archdeacon of Charing Cross". Diocese of London. 8 January 2024. Archived from the original on 13 January 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
^ Dictionary of National Biography, article on Kylmington.
^ "ARCHDEACONS DEPRIVED UNDER QUEEN ELIZABETH" (PDF). Retrieved 10 June 2012.
^ "Claughton, Piers Calveley". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5549. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Gifford, Edwin Hamilton". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 21 October 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Sinclair, William Macdonald". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 21 October 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Holmes, Ernest Edward". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 21 October 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Sharpe, Ernest Newton". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (October 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 21 October 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Gibbs-Smith, Oswin Harvard". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (November 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 21 October 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Appleton, George". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (November 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 21 October 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Sullivan, Martin Gloster". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (November 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 21 October 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Woodhouse, Samuel Mostyn Forbes". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (November 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 21 October 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Harvey, Francis William". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (November 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 21 October 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Cassidy, George Henry". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (November 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 21 October 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Delaney, Peter Anthony". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (November 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 21 October 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Diocese of London – Bishop of London installs new Archdeacon of London...
^ "Meara, David Gwynne". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (November 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 21 October 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ St Bride's: News – The Retirement of the Venerable David Meara (Accessed 27 September 2014)
^ "Announcement of new Priest in Charge".
^ @ArchdeaconLuke (31 July 2015). "Still tasks to complete as Archdeacon of Hampstead, but new things already beginning. @bythewardrobe" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^ Anglican Communion News Service – ACO: Episcopal Appointments
^ "Klyberg, Charles John". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 29 December 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Jacob, William Mungo". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 29 December 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "New Bishop of Oswestry announced". Diocese of Lichfield. 2 December 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2022. Fr Paul (47) has been the Vicar of St James's Church in Paddington since 2011 and was Area Dean of Paddington from 2016 to 2021 as well as Acting Archdeacon of Charing Cross from 2017 to 2019.
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Sources

Greenway, Diana E. (1968), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300, vol. 1, pp. 8–12
Horn, Joyce M. (1963), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, vol. 5, pp. 7–9
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Archdeacons of London and of Charing Cross

High Medieval

Edward
Reinger
William de Beaumis
Hugh de Mareni
Nicholas
Peter de Waltham
Alard de Burnham
Peter of Blois
Walter
Gilbert de Plesseto
William of Sainte-Mère-Église
Geoffrey de Lucy
William de Rising
Peter de Newport
John Chishull
William Passemer
Geoffrey de Mortuo Mari
Richard Swinefield
Robert de Ros
Richard de Gravesend

Late Medieval

John de Bedford
John de Sancto Claro
Peter de Dene
Bego de Cavomonte
Reginald de Sancto Albano
Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord
Richard de Aston
Pontius de Podio Barzaco
Itherius de Concoreto
Edmund Howard
John of Thoresby
Richard Kilvington
Peter Cardinal du Cros
James de Beaufort
John Barnet
Fortanerius Vassalli, Patriarch of Grado
Adam de Hertington
Thomas Baketon
Thomas Stowe
Reginald Kentwood
John Snell
Richard Moresby
William Fallan
Richard Martyn
John de Gigliis
John Forster
Pedro de Ayala
William Horsey
John Young, suffragan bishop
Geoffrey Wharton
William Cliffe
Thomas Bedyll
Richard Gwent

Early modern

Edward Moylle
John Wymmesley
John Harpsfield
John Mullins
Theophilus Aylmer
Thomas Paske
John Dolben
Thomas Lamplugh
Edward Stillingfleet
Thomas Tenison
William Stanley
Robert Tyrwhit
Edward Cobden
John Jortin
Anthony Hamilton
Richard Beadon
William Bingham
Joseph Pott
William Hale

Late modern

Piers Claughton
Edwin Gifford
William Sinclair
Ernest Holmes
Ernest Sharpe
Oswin Gibbs-Smith
George Appleton
Martin Sullivan
Sam Woodhouse
Frank Harvey
George Cassidy
Peter Delaney
David Meara
Nick Mercer
Luke Miller

Charing Cross

John Klyberg
Bill Jacob
Rosemary Lain-Priestley, Archdeacon for the Two Cities
Adam Atkinson
Katherine Hedderly (announced)

Diocese of London

St Paul's Cathedral
Westminster Abbey (second cathedral, 1550–1556)
The Old Deanery, London
Diocesan House, London
Diocese of Westminster (1540–1550)
Area scheme (1979–present)

Office holders

Diocesan bishop	Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London
Area bishops	Emma Ineson, Bishop of Kensington Joanne Grenfell, Bishop of Stepney Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy, Bishop of Willesden Anderson Jeremiah, Bishop of Edmonton
Other suffragan bishops	AEO: Jonathan Baker, Bishop suffragan of Fulham & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Ric Thorpe, Bishop of Islington (bishop for church plants) Pete Broadbent, Bishop's Adviser (2030 Vision) and honorary assistant bishop
Deans and senior priests	Andrew Tremlett, Dean of St Paul's
Archdeacons	Luke Miller, Archdeacon of London John Hawkins, Archdeacon of Hampstead Richard Frank, Archdeacon of Middlesex Catherine Pickford, Archdeacon of Northolt Peter Farley-Moore, Archdeacon of Hackney Katherine Hedderly, Archdeacon-designate of Charing Cross

Historic offices

Bishop suffragan of Bedford (1534–1914)
Bishop suffragan of Marlborough (1888–1918)
Archdeacon of Colchester; Archdeacon of Essex (both: 12th century–1846; moved to Rochester then St Albans then Chelmsford)
Archdeacon of St Albans (1550–1845; moved to Rochester then St Albans)

Historic residences

Fulham Palace (8th century–1975)
London House, Ludgate Hill (?–17th century)
London House, Aldersgate (18th century)
London House, St James's (18th–19th centuries)

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)