Archdeacon of Norwich
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
The ancient Archdeaconry of Norwich has been an ecclesiastical jurisdiction within the Diocese of Norwich since its creation around – at which time the first archdeacons were being appointed across the nation.List of archdeacons
High Medieval
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
- bef. 1127–aft. 1148: William '
- aft. 1146: Ralph
- bef. 1161–aft. 1164: Philip
- bef. 1168–aft. 1178: William '
- bef. 1182–aft. 1198: Thomas
- 1200–1225 : Geoffrey de Burgh
- 1228–1229 : Luke the chaplain
- 1229–aft. 1238: John of Ferentino
- bef. 1248–aft. 1252: William de Suffield
- & : post not vacant
- bef. 1273–aft. 1289 : Thomas de Skerning
Late Medieval
- 4 February 1302 – 1324 : William de Knapton
- 16 April 1324–bef. 1328 : Roger de Snetisham
- 8 December 1328 – 1340 : William Bateman
- 1340–1347 : Thomas Fastolf
- January 1347–bef. 1349: Hamo de Belers
- February 1347–bef. May 1347 : Thomas de Bradwardine '
- May 1347–?: John Berenger '
- 27 August 1349 – 1355 : Richard Lyng
- 9 April 1355–bef. 1361 : Richard de Norwico
- 17 October 1361 – 27 March 1387 : William Swynflet
- 27 March 1387–aft. 1801: John Derlyngton
- 17 November 1395: John de Middleton
- November 1406–bef. November 1407 : Robert Wolveden
- 12 November 1407–bef. 1419 : William Westacre
- 11 April 1419 – 1426 : Henry Kays
- bef. 1428–aft. 1455: Richard Cawdray
- bef. 1465–1459 : John Hales
- bef. 1461–bef. 1462 : John Morton
- bef. 1463–aft. 1463: Vincent Clement
- bef. 1472–3 January 1477 : John Morton ''
- 3 January 1477–aft. 1483: Thomas Marke
- bef. 1484–1497 : Nicholas Goldwell
- 20 April 1497–bef. 1509 : Robert Honywood
- 14 June 1509–bef. 1517 : John Ednam
- 5 February 1517 – 1522 : William Stillington
- 9 April 1522–bef. 1528 : Thomas Larke
- 26 June 1528–July 1543 : George Wyndham
- 25 November 1543–bef. 1557 : Thomas Cornwalleys
Early modern
- 16 October 1557–bef. 1571 : Richard Underwood
- 15 February 1572 – 1576 : Thomas Roberts
- bef. 1572 : John Rugge
- 1 August 1573 : George Gardiner
- 9 August 1581 – 4 September 1604 : John Freake
- 12 September 1604–bef. 1618 : Thomas Jegon
- 13 April 1618–bef. 1652 : Andrew Bing
- 18 October 1660 – 31 March 1668 : William Gery
- 20 April 1668–?: John Reynolds
- 8 June 1676 – 12 March 1694 : John Conant
- 19 April 1694 – 1 April 1720 : John Jeffery
- 5 May 1720–bef. 1722 : William Trimnel
- 22 February 1722 – 19 May 1742 : Christopher Clarke
- 13 July 1742–bef. 1744 : Matthew Postlethwayte
- 11 October 1744 – 13 June 1782 : John Berney
- 15 June 1782–bef. 1814 : William Yonge
- 22 November 1814 – 10 September 1844 : Henry Bathurst
- 23 September 1844 – 29 March 1857 : John Collyer
- 1 July 1857 – 27 March 1868 : Robert Hankinson
Late modern
- 1868–7 January 1878 : Augustus Hopper
- 1878–1910: Thomas Perowne (died 1913)
- 1910–24 February 1918 : Frederick Westcott
- 1918–1920 : Charles Lisle Carr
- 1920–1938: George MacDermott
- 1937–1954: Thomas Perowne (died 1954)
- 1954–1961 : Robert Meiklejohn
- 1961–1973 : Aubrey Aitken
- 1973–1981 : Timothy Dudley-Smith
- 1981–1993 : Michael Handley
- 1994–2008 : Clifford Offer
- 2009–29 June 2016 Jan McFarlane
- 13 November 2016 – 1 April 2022 : Karen Hutchinson
- 1 October 2022 – present: Keith James