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 and the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. 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, 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
  • –1180: Roger '
  • bef. 1180–aft. 1190: Richard Peche
  • –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 '
  • bef. 1283–1294 : William de Montfort

Late Medieval

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

Early modern

Late modern