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Archdeacon An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o ...

Coventry Coventry ( or ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its ...

is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the

Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain ...

Diocese of Coventry The Diocese of Coventry is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury. It is headed by the Bishop of Coventry, who sits at Coventry Cathedral in Coventry, and is assisted by one suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Warwick. The dioc ...

. The post has been called the '' Archdeacon Pastor'' since 2012.

History

The post was historically within the Diocese of Lichfield beginning in the 12th century – around the time when archdeacon first started to occur in England. From 24 January 1837, the archdeaconry was in the Diocese of Worcester, and since 6 September 1918 it has been in the

. From 2009, the archdeacon of Coventry also had statutory oversight over the Archdeaconry of Warwick, delegated from the Archdeacon Missioner, in preparation for the merging of the two archdeaconries. This arrangement may or may not still be legally in effect following the end of use of the terms "of Warwick/of Coventry"Coventry Diocese – A New Archdeacon
/ref> (Rodham and Green remained, legally, collated to the Archdeaconries of Warwick and of Coventry).National Archdeacons' Forum — Archdeacons’ News — #26, July 2017
(Accessed 9 September 2017)

List of archdeacons

High Medieval

*aft. 1135–1161 (res.):

Richard Peche Richard Peche (died 1182) was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield. Peche was probably the son of Robert Peche who was Bishop of Lichfield from 1121 to 1128. He was definitely the son of a priest, as Ralph de Diceto wrote about him and justified the ...

*aft. 1161–bef. 1175:

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*bef. 1176–aft. 1184:

Nicholas Nicholas is a male given name and a surname. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglicanism, Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the n ...

*bef. 1184–aft. 1189: Richard Brito ''(I)'' *bef. 1210–aft. 1210: Richard de Leghes *: Robert de Bosco *:

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*bef. –aft. 1245: Alexander of Hales *bef. 1240–aft. 1242:

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*bef. 1245–aft. 1245:

Lawrence of St Martin Lawrence of St Martin (or Laurence de Sancto Martino) was a medieval Bishop of Rochester. Lawrence was a royal clerk and held prebends in the dioceses of Chichester and Salisbury. He was also archdeacon of the diocese of Coventry The Diocese ...

*bef. 1248–1255 (res.):

William of Kilkenny William of Kilkenny (died 21 September 1256) was a Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Ely. Life William may be the same William of Kilkenny who was elected Bishop of Ossory in 1231, but resigned the office in 1232 before being consecrated. ...

*bef. 1272–bef. 1286: John Kirkby *: Richard Brito ''(II)'' *bef. –aft. 1297:

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*14 November 1299–?:

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Late Medieval

*?–bef. 1302 (d.):

Gregory Giudice de Alatri Gregory may refer to: People and fictional characters * Gregory (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Gregory (surname), a surname Places Australia *Gregory, Queensland, a town in the Shire of ...

*1302–29 August 1320 (exch.):

Richard Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Frankish language, Old Frankish and is a Compound (linguistics), compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' an ...

(son of Anibaldus Riccardi de Urbe) *29 August 1320 – 27 August 1335 (d.): John Cardinal Gaetani de Urbe (Cardinal-deacon of St Theodore) *27 August 1335 – 11 April 1340: ''Vacant'' (due to an ongoing dispute between

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and

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) *11 April 1340–bef. 1349: Humphrey de Hastanges *11 July 1349–aft. 1352 (deprived):

Hugh de Marisco Hugh may refer to: *Hugh (given name) Noblemen and clergy French * Hugh the Great (died 956), Duke of the Franks * Hugh Magnus of France (1007–1025), co-King of France under his father, Robert II * Hugh, Duke of Alsace (died 895), modern-day ...

(not consistently in post) *3 September 1349–bef. 1351 (d.): William de Sallowe *12 February 1352–bef. 1354 (d.): William Cross *30 July 1354 – 1355 (deprived): Richard Boule *25 January 1355 – 20 September 1358 (exch.): William de Driffield *20 September 1358–bef. 1361 (d.): John de Pipe *14 August 1361–bef. 1369 (res.):

Richard de Birmingham Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stron ...

*22 November–24 December 1369 (exch.):

William Lombe William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

*24 December 1369–bef. 1408 (d.):

Robert de Stretton Robert de Stretton (died 1385) was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield following the death of Roger Northburgh in 1358.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 105 A client of Edward, the Black Prince, he became a "notorious figure"Owst, p ...

*20 June 1408 – 18 June 1422 (res.): Robert de Oxton *18 June 1422 – 1433 (res.): John Heyworth *22 May 1433–bef. 1442 (res.): Robert Esple *29 June 1442–bef. 1488 (d.): Roger Wall *1 December 1488 – 30 January 1505 (d.): Thomas Mills *aft. 1505–bef. 1509: George Strangeways *aft. 1509–1512 (res.):

Ralph Colyngwood Ralph (pronounced ; or ,) is a male given name of English, Scottish and Irish origin, derived from the Old English ''Rædwulf'' and Radulf, cognate with the Old Norse ''Raðulfr'' (''rað'' "counsel" and ''ulfr'' "wolf"). The most common forms ...

(afterwards Dean of Lichfield) *2 October 1512–bef. 1558 (d.): John Blythe

Early modern

*– (deprived): Henry Comberford (disputed) *1560–July 1577 (d.):

Thomas Lever Thomas Lever (Leaver, Leiver) (1521–1577) was an English Protestant reformer and Marian exile, one of the founders of the Puritan tendency in the Church of England. Life He was from Little Lever, Lancashire. He graduated B.A. at St. John's Col ...

*August 1577 – 1584 (res.):

William James William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the lat ...

*14 November 1584 – 1631 (d.): William Hinton *13 May–16 September 1631 (d.):

Samuel Brooke Dr Samuel Brooke (1575–1631) was a Gresham Professor of Divinity (appointed 1612), a playwright, the chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge and subsequently the Master of Trinity (1629–1631). He was known to be an Arminian and anti-Calvinist. ...

*29 September 1631 – 1642 (res.): Ralph Brownrigg *1643–bef. 1661 (d.):

Francis Walsall Francis Walsall was a priest in England during the 17th century. Walsall was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Ca ...

(disputed) *1661–3 March 1673 (d.): John Riland *10 March 1673–bef. 1684 (d.): George Downing *1684–20 April 1703 (d.):

Lancelot Addison The Reverend Lancelot Addison (1632 – 20 April 1703) was an English writer and Church of England clergyman. He was born at Crosby RavensworthJohn Julian: ''Dictionary of Hymnology'', 2nd edition, p. 19. London: John Murray, 1907. in Westmorlan ...

(also Dean of Lichfield since 1683) *26 July 1703–bef. 1708 (d.): Richard Davies *9 August 1708–bef. 1741 (d.): William Wilson *9 June 1741 – 2 July 1778 (d.): Thomas Smallbrook *22 July 1778 – 4 April 1793 (d.): Norman Fotheringham *16 May 1793 – 20 February 1816 (d.):

William Vyse The Ven. William Vyse (b Sambrook 11 February 1710 – d Birmingham 29 June 1770) was an English churchman, Archdeacon of Salop from 13 March 1735 until his death. The family's earlier history in Staffordshire is outlined by the editor of E ...

*14 March 1816 – 28 September 1827 (d.):

Charles Buckeridge Charles Buckeridge (''circa'' 1832–73) was a British Gothic Revival architect who trained as a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott. He practised in Oxford 1856–68 and in London from 1869. He was made an Associate of the Royal Institute of B ...

*19 October 1827–bef. 1851 (res.): William Spooner :''The archdeaconry was in Worcester diocese from 24 January 1837.'' *31 March 1851 – 22 March 1873 (d.): John Sandford

Late modern

*1873–1887 (ret.):

Charles Holbech Charles William Holbech, J.P. (born Farnborough, Warwickshire 1816; died 1901) was Archdeacon of Coventry from 1873 until 1887. Holbech was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1840, and was curate at Chelsfield until ...

*1887–1908 (ret.): William Bree *1908–9 November 1922 (d.): George Arbuthnot :''On 6 September 1918, the archdeaconry was moved to the new Diocese of Coventry.'' *1923–1927 (res.):

Claude Blagden Claude Martin Blagden (18 April 18747 September 1952) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century. Family and early life He was born on 18 April 1874, the fifth son and youngest child of the eight children of Henry Char ...

*1927–1935 (res.): Joseph Hunkin *1935–1940 (res.): Richard Brook *1941–1946 (res.): Richard Howard (also Provost of Coventry, 1933–1958) *1946–1965 (ret.):

Leonard Stanford Leonard John Stanford (26 September 1896 – 20 November 1967) was Archdeacon of Coventry from 1946 to 1965. Stanford was born in Islington. During the First World War he served with various London regiments, and was attached to the North Staffo ...

(afterwards archdeacon emeritus) *1965–1977 (ret.): Eric Buchan (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) *1977–1983 (res.): Peter Bridges *1983–1989 (res.): Alan Morgan *1989–2000 (ret.): Ian Russell *2001–2007 (res.): Mark Bryant *2008–2012 (ret,): Ian Watson (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) *December 201231 August 2017: John Green (''Acting, April–December 2012''; called Archdeacon Pastor) *July 201718 March 2018:

Clive Hogger Clive Hogger (born 1970) is one of several Associate Archdeacons in the Diocese of Sheffield. He was also the first person to undertake a new role as Assistant Archdeacon in the Diocese of Coventry. Prior to that he was the Acting Archdeacon Pasto ...

(''Acting'';Diocese of Coventry — Appointment of Acting Archdeacon
(Accessed 9 September 2017) assistant archdeacon since March 2018) *18 March 2018present:

Sue Field Susan Elizabeth Field (born 10 May 1959) is an English Anglican priest and former Archdeacon Pastor (and Archdeacon of Coventry) in the Diocese of Coventry from 18 March 2018 resigning in January 2023. Field was educated at King Edward VI High S ...

(called Archdeacon Pastor)Diocese of Coventry — Hundreds welcome our new Archdeacon Pastor
(Accessed 25 March 2018)

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