Archdeacon of Sudbury


The Archdeacon of Sudbury is a senior cleric in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
The archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy in its five rural deaneries; Clare, Ixworth, Lavenham, Sudbury and Thingoe.

History

This archdeaconry was separated from the original archdeaconry of Suffolk in 1127. Sudbury which comprised eight deaneries in 1256 and in 1911 had eleven. There were also three districts under peculiar jurisdiction of Canterbury and one under that of Rochester.
Originally in the Diocese of Norwich, the Sudbury archdeaconry was transferred by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Diocese of Ely in 1837. It was then transferred a second time to the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 1914. The current archdeacon is David Jenkins.

List of archdeacons

High Medieval

  • bef. 1145–aft. 1136: William son of Humphrey
  • bef. 1143–aft. 1167: Baldwin of Boulogne
  • bef. 1200–aft. 1185: Reiner
  • bef. 1193–aft. 1211: Roger
  • bef. 1220–bef. 1222 : Robert of Gloucester, Archdeacon of Stafford
  • bef. 1224–bef. 1235: Alan de Beccles
  • bef. 1241–1242 : Roger Pincerna, Le Boteler
  • 1242–aft. 1256: William de Clare
  • bef. 1266–1267: Thomas Ingoldsthorpe
  • 1267–aft. 1273: Constantine de Mildenhall
  • bef. 1279–aft. 1279: Ralph de Fornham
  • bef. 1285–bef. 1294: Ralph of York

Late Medieval

  • bef. 1307–bef. 1308: Henry de Bradenham
  • 1 April 1308 – 1324 : Alan de Ely
  • 16 April 1324–bef. 1329: Simon de Creake
  • 17 January 1329–bef. 1346 : Firmin de Lavenham
  • 31 August 1346–bef. 1348 : Gilbert de Marewell or de Yarewell
  • 12 October 1348 – 1349 : Richard Lyng
  • 27 August–20 November 1349 : Walter Elvedon
  • 20 November–bef. December 1349 : Thomas de Winchester
  • 8 December 1349–bef. 1350 : Thomas de Methelwold
  • 3 January 1350–bef. 1361 : Henry de la Zouche
  • 7 January 1362–bef. 1365 : William Graa de Trusthope
  • bef. 1363–aft. 1363: John Hambleton
  • 8 May 1384–?: John de Lincoln
  • 3 September 1384–bef. 1389 : Hugh Sturmy
  • 1385: Thomas Grene
  • 14 November 1388: Hugh Gaudeby
  • 5 May 1389 – 5 November 1398 : Thomas Hetersete
  • 5 November–bef. December 1398 : Richard Maudeleyn
  • 18 December 1398–bef. 1406 : Thomas Hetersete
  • 12 January 1406–bef. 1414 : Eudo de la Zouche
  • 2 December 1412 : Roger Wodehele
  • 13 March 1414 – 18 April 1429 : Thomas Rodborne
  • 18 April 1429–bef. 1452 : Clement Denston
  • 24 May 1452–bef. 1462: John Wiggenhall
  • bef. 1462–bef. 1479 : John Selot
  • 9 September 1479–aft. 1483: Nicholas Goldwell
  • bef. 1484–bef. 1493 : John Jeffreys
  • 3 December 1493–bef. 1497 : Thomas Shenkwyn
  • 14 December 1497–bef. 1514 : John Finneys
  • 3 April 1514 – 1517 : William Stillington
  • 17 February 1517 – 1522 : Thomas Larke
  • 9 April 1522–bef. 1537 : Richard Woleman
  • 21 September 1537 – 1570 : Miles Spencer

Early modern

Late modern