Archdeacon of Canterbury


The Archdeacon of Canterbury is a senior office-holder in the Diocese of Canterbury. Like other archdeacons, they are an administrator in the diocese at large and is a canon residentiary of the cathedral.

History

The Archdeacon of Canterbury has an additional role, traditionally serving as the Archbishop of Canterbury's representative at enthronement ceremonies for new diocesan bishops in his province. At these services, the archdeacon reads the archbishop's mandate and, taking the new bishops by the hand, conducts them to their episcopal throne.
The archdeaconry and archdeacon of Canterbury have been in constant existence since the 11th century. There was one short-lived attempt to split the role in the 12th century. In modern times, the archdeaconry has been split twice: creating Maidstone archdeaconry in 1841 and Ashford archdeaconry in 2011.

Composition

The archdeaconry covers approximately the north-east corner of the diocese., the archdeaconry of Canterbury consists the following deaneries in the Diocese of Canterbury:
  • Deanery of Canterbury
  • Deanery of East Bridge
  • Deanery of Reculver
  • Deanery of Thanet
  • Deanery of Stour Valley

List of archdeacons

Pre-Norman Conquest

  • 798: Wulfred
  • 844: Beornoth
  • 853: Athelweald
  • 864: Ealstan
  • 866: Sigifrith
  • 866: Liaving
  • 890: Werbeald
  • bef. 1054: Brinstan
  • 1054: Haimo

High Medieval

  • bef. –aft. : Valerius
  • bef. 1075–aft. 1086: Ansketil
  • bef. 1099–aft. 1108: William
  • 1115–May 1125 : John
  • bef. 1126–1138: Helewise
  • bef. –March 1148 : Walter
  • aft. 1148–October 1154 : Roger de Pont L'Évêque
  • aft. 1154–1163 : Thomas Becket
  • bef. 1163–October 1174 : Geoffrey Ridel
  • 1175–June 1194 : Herbert Poore
  • bef. 1194–aft. 1195 : Philip of Poitou
  • bef. 1196–aft. 1206: Henry de Castilion
  • bef. 1213–May 1227 : Henry Sandford
  • 14 May 1227 – 1248 : Simon Langton
  • 28 January 1232–?: Richard de Sancto Johanne
  • bef. 1248–July 1269 : Stephen de Monte Luelli
  • aft. July 1269–9 October 1275 : Hugh de Mortuo Mari
  • October 1275–May 1278 : William Middleton
  • 1278–bef. 1280 : Robert of Gernemue
  • aft. 1280–1299 : Richard de Ferings
  • 29 June 1299–September 1305 : John de Langeton

Late Medieval


College of Cardinals & cardinal-bishop of Ostia and Velletri

  • 14 December 1434 – 26 January 1467 : Thomas Chichele
  • bef. 1467–bef. 1479 : Thomas Winterbourne
  • February 1479–bef. 1495 : John Bourgchier
  • 26 November 1495 – 25 July 1504 : Hugh Peynthwyn
  • aft. 1505–bef. 1534 : William Warham
  • 9 March 1534 – 15 March 1554 : Edmund Cranmer

Early modern

Late modern