Archdeacon of St Davids
The archdeacon of St Davids is a senior cleric in the Church in Wales' Diocese of St Davids. The archdeacon is the senior priest with responsibility over the area of the archdeaconry of St Davids, one of three archdeaconries in the diocese. The archdeaconry of St Davids comprises the four rural deaneries of Daugleddau, Dewisland/Fishguard, Pembroke and Roose.
The first recorded archdeacons of St Davids occur soon after the Norman Conquest. However, no territorial titles are recorded until after.
List of archdeacons of St Davids
- 1175–1214 Pontius
- 1215–1222 Martin
- 1219–1229 Hugh of Clun
- 1231–? Jordan of the Three Mountains
- 1248–1259 Richard de Knovill
- 1276–1280 Peter Quinel
- 1280–1287 Robert de Haverford
- 1293–1307 John Foke
- 1319 Philip
- 1328 Henry de Gower
- 1328–1334 David Franceys
- ?–1349 John Faulkes
- 1349–? Richard Cleangre
- 1363,1383 John Goch or Gough
- 1361–1368 Adam de Bokelyn or Rokelyn
- 1388–1400 John Bouland
- 1400–1419 John Hiot
- 1420 John Thomas
- 1420–1422 Edmund Nicholls
- 1422–1424 William Ryley
- ?–1434 William Pencrych
- 1434–? William Thame
- 1458 John Smith
- 1459 Richard Caunton
- 1473-?1476 John Smith
- 1500–1514 Thomas Saynte
- ?–1527 John Fychan
- ?–1547 Andrew Whitmay
- 1557–1581 Richard Harford
- ?–1581 John Pratt
- 1607–1644 Robert Rudd
- 1644–1667 Hugh Lloyd
- 1667–? Anthony Jones
- 1678–? George Owen
- 1691–1732 John Medley
- 1732–1732 Walter Morgan
- 1732–?1737 Arthur Williams
- 1737–1749 Richard Davies
- 1749–1767 Thomas Burton
- 1767–1805 Charles Moss
- 1805–1831 Ralph Churton
- 1831–1833 Edward Owen
- 1833–1863 Thomas Bevan
- 1864–1874 George Clark
- 1874–1883 Richard Lewis
- 1883–1888 Charles Edmondes
- 1888–1900 George Christopher Hilbers
- 1900–1920 David Williams
- 1920–1927 David Prosser
- 1927–1928 Gilbert Joyce
- 1929–1936 Edward Lincoln Lewis
- 1937–1942 Richard Rice Thomas
- 1942–1949 Bickerton Edwards
- 1949–1962 Christopher Gwynne Lewis
- 1963–1967 David Herbert Lloyd
- 1968–1969 Ronald James Tree
- 1970–1982 Benjamin Alec Lewis
- 1982–1988 Dewi Bridges
- 1988–1991 Ivor Rees, Assistant Bishop of St Davids
- 1991–1996 Cyril John Harvey
- 1997–2002 Graham Davies
- 2003–2010 John Holdsworth
- 2010–2013 Keith Smalldon
- 2013–2018 Dennis Wight
- 22 March 2018 – present Paul Mackness