The Archdeacon of Cheltenham is a senior cleric in the

Diocese of Gloucester The Diocese of Gloucester is a Church of England diocese based in Gloucester, covering the non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire. The cathedral is Gloucester Cathedral and the bishop is the Bishop of Gloucester. It is part of the Province ...

who is responsible for some pastoral care and discipline of clergy in the Cheltenham archdeaconry. The archdeaconry was created as the Archdeaconry of Cirencester in the Diocese of Gloucester & Bristol on 8 December 1882 from parts of the

Gloucester Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east ...

and

Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...

archdeaconries. When Gloucester & Bristol diocese was re-divided in 1897, Cirencester archdeaconry remained part of the Gloucester diocese. On 1 August 1919, the archdeaconry's boundaries were altered and it was renamed the Archdeaconry of Cheltenham. The archdeaconry consists of the deaneries of Cheltenham, Cirencester, North Cotswold, and Tewkesbury & Winchcombe. Almost all of its parishes lie within the ceremonial county of Gloucester, the exceptions being Cirencester's

Marston Meysey Marston Meysey, pronounced and sometimes also spelt Marston Maisey, is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, lying northeast of Cricklade on the county boundary with Gloucestershire. The parish includes the hamlet of Marston Hill. Ma ...

and

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, both in Wiltshire. The incumbent archdeacon since 2017 is

Phil Andrew Philip John Andrew (born 4 December 1962, Eldoret, Kenya) has been the Archdeacon of Cheltenham since 17 March 2017. Andrew was educated at King Edward's School, Witley, the University of Nottingham and St John's College, Nottingham; and ordained ...

List of archdeacons

: ''Archdeaconry created as Archdeaconry of Cirencester in Gloucester & Bristol Diocese in 1882.'' *1883 – 1908: Henry Hayward :''Archdeaconry allocated to the new Diocese of Gloucester when Gloucester & Bristol diocese divided in 1897.'' *1908 – 30 April 1919 (d.): John Sinclair *1919 – 1919 (res.):

Reginald Waterfield Reginald Waterfield (20 December 1867 – 8 March 1967) was an Anglican priest in the 20th century. Education and career He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1897. He was assistant master at Rugby School, ...

(afterwards

Dean of Hereford The Dean of Hereford is the head (''primus inter pares'' – first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons, the ruling body of Hereford Cathedral. The dean and chapter are based at the ''Cathedral Church of Blessed Virgin Mary and St Eth ...

, 1919) :''During Waterfield's tenure, the archdeaconry was reconfigured and renamed Cheltenham archdeaconry.'' *1920 – 1924 (res.): George Gardner *1924 – 9 June 1932 (d.): Alan Cornwall *1932–1943: Frederick Sears *1943 – 1951 (ret.): Edmund Murray *1951 – 1965 (ret.):

Ronald Sutch Ronald Huntley Sutch (5 March 1890 – 22 February 1975) was Archdeacon of Cheltenham from 1951 to 1965. Sutch was educated at Batley Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford and ordained as a priest in 1915. After a curacy at Christ Church, Glas ...

(afterwards archdeacon emeritus) *1965 – 1976 (ret.): George Hutchins (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) *1975 – 1988 (res.): Eric Evans (afterwards

Dean of St Paul's The dean of St Paul's is a member of, and chair of the Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral in London in the Church of England. The dean of St Paul's is also ''ex officio'' dean of the Order of the British Empire. The current dean is Andrew Tremlett, ...

, 1988) *1988 – 1998 (ret.):

John Lewis John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville ...

(afterwards archdeacon emeritus) *1998 – 31 December 2009 (ret.):

Hedley Ringrose Hedley Sidney Ringrose (29 June 1942 – 15 April 2021) was the Archdeacon of Cheltenham from 1998 to 2009. Ringrose studied for ordination at Salisbury Theological College and was ordained in 1969. After curacies at Bishopston, Bristol and E ...

*201030 November 2016 (res.):

Robert Springett Robert Wilfrid Springett (born 15 September 1962) is a British Anglican bishop. He has served as the Bishop of Tewkesbury (a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Gloucester) since his consecration as a bishop on 30 November 2016. He previously s ...

(became

Bishop of Tewkesbury The Bishop of Tewkesbury is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Gloucester, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the town of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, but the ...

) *11 March 2017present:

Gloucester Diocese — Welcome to the new Archdeacon of Cheltenham
(Accessed 23 November 2017)

References

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