The Archdeacon of West Cumberland is responsible for the

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 ...

ry of West

Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is a historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennines and Solway Firth coast. Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974. From 19 ...

, one of three administrative divisions of the

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(

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)

Diocese of Carlisle The Diocese of Carlisle was created in 11 April 1132 by Henry I out of part of the Diocese of Durham, although many people of Cumbric descent in the area looked to Glasgow for spiritual leadership. The first bishop was Æthelwold, who was the ki ...

. The archdeaconry was created (mostly from the Archdeaconry of Westmorland but with a little territory from

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and

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archdeaconries) by Order-in-Council on 7 August 1959.

List of archdeacons

:''The archdeaconry was erected in 1959; Pugh was the first archdeacon.'' *1959–1970 (res.): Edward Pugh (became Bishop suffragan of Penrith) *1970 – 31 March 1979 (res.):

Bill Hardie Archibald George "Bill" Hardie (19 December 1908 – 28 February 1997) was Archdeacon of West Cumberland from 1971 until 1979. The son of the Most Rev. William George Hardie (Archbishop of the West Indies from 1945 to 1949), he was educated at ...

, Vicar of Haile *1979 – 31 March 1991 (ret.): Burnham Hodgson (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) *September 1991 – November 1996 (res.):

John Packer John Richard Packer (born 10 October 1946) is a retired British Anglican bishop. He was the only Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, serving from the renaming of the diocese from Ripon in 2000 to his 2014 retirement (prior to his former diocese's merg ...

, Priest-in-charge of

Bridekirk Bridekirk is a village and civil parish in the Allerdale district in the county of Cumbria, England. It is around north of the Derwent river and about the same distance from the nearest large town of Cockermouth just south of the river. Brideki ...

from 1995 (became Bishop suffragan of Warrington) *1996–2004 (ret.):

Alan Davis Alan Davis (born 18 June 1956) is an English artist and writer of comic books, known for his work on titles such as ''Captain Britain'', ''The Uncanny X-Men'', ''ClanDestine'', ''Detective Comics'', ''Excalibur'', '' JLA: The Nail'' and '' JLA: ...

*2004–2008 (ret.): Colin Hill *20 January 2009 – 2022: Richard Pratt (alone) *24 January 2022 – present: Stewart Fyfe was collated Archdeacon of West Cumberland and Richard Pratt licensed as Associate Archdeacon in a job-share arrangement.

References

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