Archdeacon of Leicester
The Archdeacon of Leicester is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England.
History
The first archdeacon of Leicester is recorded before 1092 – around the time when archdeacons were first appointed across 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 and, on 12 November 1926, the modern Diocese of Leicester was founded from Leicester and Loughborough archdeaconries and part of the archdeaconry of Northampton.
List of archdeacons
High Medieval
- bef. 1092–?: Ranulph
- Godfrey
- bef. –aft. : Walter
- bef. –1148 : Robert de Chesney
- bef. 1150–bef. 1159 : Hugh Barre
- bef. 1163–aft. 1177: Baldric de Segillo
- –1189 : Hamo
- bef. –1195 : Roger de Rolleston
- bef. –aft. 1224: Reimund
- bef. 1226–aft. 1228: William Blund of Lincoln
- bef. 1229–1232 : Robert Grosseteste
- 1232–1234: William de Dratton
- bef. 1235–1252 : John of Basingstoke
- 1252–bef. 1274: Solomon of Dover
- 1275–bef. 1295 : Roger de Saxenhurst
- 16 January 1295 – 16 September 1310 : Roger Martival
Late Medieval
- 13 October 1310 – 5 October 1346 : Guillaume Cardinal de Farges
- 1346–26 February 1347 : Raynald Orsini
- Arnald de Gavarreto was unsuccessfully provided to the archdeaconry in 1347 and was still claiming it – unsuccessfully – in 1355.
- 1347–bef. 1354 : Henry Chaddesden
- 12 May 1354 – 1361 : William Doune
- bef. 1371–27 August 1372 : Philippe Cardinal de Cabassoles
- 1372–13 August 1379 : Giacomo Cardinal Orsini, Dean of Salisbury
- 1380–2 February 1395 : Poncello Orsini
- 1390– : John Bottlesham
- 4 August 1392–bef. 1421: John Elvet
- 1392–1392 : Richard Holland
- bef. 1414–1424 : Richard Elvet
- 29 October 1424–bef. 1430: John Legbourne
- bef. 1430–aft. 1431: Thomas Barnsley
- 14 August 1454 – 1458 : Richard Ewen
- 1458–bef. 1473 : William Witham
- 1473–bef. 1478: Roger Rotherham
- 1478–1479 : John Morton
- 1485–bef. 1508 : Richard Lavender
- 18 March 1508–bef. 1515: William Spark
- 1515–bef. 1518: Henry Wilcocks
- 1518–bef. 1531 : Richard Maudeley
- 25 March 1531–December 1531 : Stephen Gardiner
- 14 December 1531 – 1535 : Edward Foxe
- 9 October 1535 – 1539 : Edmund Bonner
- 24 September 1539–bef. 1541 : William More, Bishop suffragan of Colchester
Early modern
- 19 February 1541–bef. 1560 : Thomas Robertson
- 1560–15 February 1589 : Richard Barber
- 10 May 1589 – 16 September 1590 : Hugh Blythe
- 19 April 1591–bef. 1625 : Robert Johnson
- 1 August 1625–bef. 1631 : Richard Pilkington
- 21 September 1631–bef. 1641 : William Warr
- 16 October 1641 – 1661 : Henry Ferne
- 18 June 1661 – 27 June 1662 : Robert Hitch
- 27 June 1662–bef. 1669 : Clement Breton
- 30 July 1669 – 23 August 1679 : William Owtram
- 10 September 1679 – 27 August 1683 : Francis Meres
- 5 September 1683–bef. 1703 : Byrom Eaton
- 1703–9 May 1715 : John Rogers
- 17 May 1715 – 18 May 1756 : David Trimnel
- 7 July 1756 – 29 August 1772 : John Taylor
- 17 December 1772 – 23 December 1785 : James Bickham
- 25 January 1786 – 9 March 1812 : Andrew Burnaby
- 31 March 1812 – 13 November 1830 : Thomas Parkinson
- 22 January 1831 – 7 April 1863 : Thomas Bonney
Late modern
- 1863–1884 : Henry Fearon
- 1884–1886 : Assheton Pownall
- 1886–1899 : John Mitchinson
- 1899–1920 : John Stocks
- 1921–1938 : Frederick MacNutt
- 1938–1956 : Cecil Matthews
- 1956–1963 : Irven Edwards
- 1963–1980 : Berkeley Cole
- 1980–1994 : David Silk
- 1994–2002 : Mike Edson
- 2002–April 2012 : Richard Atkinson
- 20128 September 2018 : Tim Stratford
- 4 November 2018present: Richard Worsfold
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