Archdeacon of Suffolk


The Archdeacon of Suffolk is a senior cleric in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
The archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy in the territory of the archdeaconry.

History

The archdeaconry of Sudbury separated from the archdeaconry of Suffolk in 1127. In 1256 it included thirteen deaneries which have since been subdivided, so that by 1911 it contained eighteen deaneries. Originally in the Dioceses of Norwich, and Rochester, the Suffolk archdeaconry was transferred to the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 1914.

List of archdeacons

High Medieval

  • bef. 1119–aft. 1135: Roger de Beaufeu
  • bef. 1143–aft. 1186: Walkelin
  • bef. 1193–aft. 1210: Geoffrey
  • bef. 1214–aft. 1235: Robert de Tywa
  • bef. 1240–aft. 1241: Alexander de Walpole
  • 1242–aft. 1246: Roger Pincerna alias Le Boteler
  • bef. 1249–aft. 1251: William de Horham
  • bef. 1257–aft. 1258: William de Dunton
  • bef. 1262–aft. 1267: John of Alvechurch
  • ?–1282 : Thomas Lenebaud
  • bef. 1291–1296 : Thomas de Skerning
  • bef. 1298–bef. 1311: Sayerus

Late Medieval

  • 10 January 1311–bef. 1324 : Simon de Ely
  • 28 March–April 1324 : Alan de Ely
  • 16 April 1224–bef. 1231 : William de Knapton
  • 31 March 1331–bef. 1347 : John de Fenton
  • 3–27 May 1347 : Richard Lyng
  • 27 May 1347–June 1353 : Michael Northburgh
  • June 1353–bef. 1357 : William de Fieschi or de Flisco
  • 1357 : Francis de St Maximo
  • 1357–bef. 1359 : Hélie Cardinal de Talleyrand-Périgord
  • 5 June 1359–bef. 1363: John de Carleton
  • bef. 1363–21 July 1365 : William Graa de Trusthope
  • 21 July 1365–bef. 1367 : Carleton
  • 16 January 1367 – 20 January 1368 : John de Ufford
  • 20 January 1368–bef. 1373 : John Aleyn
  • 10 December 1373 – 1381 : John Clervaus
  • bef. 1374–?: Guillaume Cardinal Noellet
  • ?–25 August 1380 : Eleazario Cardinal de Sabrano
  • 4 August 1380 – 1381: Philippe Cardinal Valois d'Alençon
  • bef. 1382–bef. 1383 : John Clervaus
  • 2 September–October/November 1383 : William de Malebys
  • 1 April 1384–bef. 1387: Thomas de Shirford
  • 28 May–8 July 1387 : Henry Sturdy
  • 8 July 1387 – 1 July 1390 : Robert Foulmere
  • 1 July 1390–bef. 1421 : John Thorpe
  • 10 November 1421–bef. 1441 : John Franks
  • ?–1448 : Richard Beauchamp
  • 14 March 1449–bef. 1472 : Henry Trevilian
  • 2 March 1472–April 1497 : William Pykenham
  • 20 April 1487 – 1505 : Nicholas Goldwell
  • ?–bef. 1526 : John Dolman
  • 12 November 1526 – 1528: Thomas Wynter
  • 1524-1526, 1528-1529 : Edmund Steward
  • 11 January 1529 – 1536 : Richard Sampson
  • 1 November 1536 – 1539 : John Skypp
  • 27 August 1540–bef. 1542: William Ryvell

Early modern

  • 8 February 1542–bef. 1548 : Elizeus Ferreys
  • 20 August 1548–bef. 1559 : Robert Rugge
  • 17 April 1559 – 1576 : Nicholas Wendon
  • 10 November 1576 – 1613 : John Maplesden
  • 6 October 1613–bef. 1640 : Robert Pearson
  • 1 February–November 1640 : Robert Bostock
  • 27 November 1640–bef. 1660 : Richard Mileson
  • 18 September 1660 – 1683 : Laurence Womack
  • 3 January 1684–bef. 1687 : Godfrey King
  • 1 October 1687–bef. 1688 : John Battely
  • 20 December 1688 – 1 November 1724 : Humphrey Prideaux
  • 19 December 1724 – 6 September 1745 : David Wilkins
  • 19 September 1745 – 5 January 1748 : Richard Warren
  • 19 February 1748 – 23 February 1781 : Henry Goodall
  • 5 March 1781 – 17 December 1818 : John Strachey
  • 27 February 1819–bef. 1846 : Henry Berners
  • 12 January 1846–bef. 1868 : Thomas Ormerod

Late modern