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Salop Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th ...

is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the

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Diocese of Lichfield. The incumbent is Paul Thomas.

History

Shropshire was historically split between the diocese of Hereford (under the Archdeacon of Shropshire) and the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield (under the Archdeacon of Salop). The Shropshire archdeaconry in the Hereford diocese included the deaneries of Burford, Stottesdon, Ludlow, Pontesbury, Clun and Wenlock and the Salop archdeaconry in the Coventry and Lichfield diocese the deaneries of Salop and Newport. In 1876, the archdeaconry of Shropshire became the archdeaconry of Ludlow, with the additional deaneries of Bridgnorth, Montgomery, Bishops Castle, Condover, and Church Stretton, which had been added in 1535. The archdeaconry of Salop, now entirely in the Lichfield diocese, includes the deaneries of Edgmond, Ellesmere, Hodnet, Shrewsbury, Telford, Wem, Whitchurch and Wrockwardine. Part of Welsh Shropshire was included in the diocese of St Asaph until the disestablishment of the

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(1920), comprising the deanery of Oswestry in the

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, and two parishes in the deanery of Llangollen and the archdeaconry of Wrexham. Certain parishes in Montgomeryshire chose to remain in the Hereford diocese.

List of archdeacons

High Medieval

*bef. 1083–aft. 1087: Herbert Grammaticus *bef. 1105–aft. 1105:

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*–1180:

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''(I)'' *bef. 1180–aft. 1190:

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 ...

(possibly son of

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) *–1212: Robert de Insula *bef. 1212–aft. 1214: Thomas Nevil *bef. 1215–aft. 1221:

Ralph de Maidstone Ralph of Maidstone (died 1245) was a medieval Bishop of Hereford. Life Nothing is known of Maidstone's background or upbringing. Although his year of birth is unknown, he was probably born before about 1195. He earned the title of ''magister'', ...

*bef. May 1221–aft. 1 July 1232:

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*aft. 1232–bef. 1247:

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*bef. 1247–aft. 1256:

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*bef. 1275–aft. 1275:

''(II)'' *bef. 1283–1294 (d.): William de Montfort (also

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from 1283)

Late Medieval

*15 January–bef. 21 January 1304 (d.):

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*24 March 1304–aft. 1327:

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*29 September 1332–bef. 1339 (d.):

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*22 January 1339–bef. 1360:

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*14 September 1360 – 4 July 1379 (exch.): William de Shrouesbury *4 July 1379 – 31 May 1398 (exch.): John Knode *31 May 1398–bef. 1399 (d.): Philip Lee *14 March 1399– (exch.): William de Neuport/

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(became

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) *30 August 1402–bef. 1425 (d.): John Howbell *31 October 1425–bef. 1433 (res.): Thomas Chestrefeld ''or'' Wursop *17 August 1433 – 20 November 1436 (exch.): Gregory Newport *20 November 1436 – 5 May 1437 (exch.): John Weborn *5 May 1437–bef. 1450 (res.):

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*22 May 1450–bef. 1464 (d.): Thomas Lye *1 June 1464 – 2 February 1483 (d.): John Fox *?–bef. 1485 (res.): Edmund Hals (became

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) *12 October 1485 – 30 January 1500 (d.): Richard Sherborne *?–bef. 1515 (d.): Adam Grafton (became

Archdeacon of Stafford The Archdeacon of Lichfield (called Archdeacon of Stafford until 1980) is a senior cleric in the Diocese of Lichfield who is responsible for pastoral care and discipline of clergy in the Lichfield archdeaconry. The archdeaconry was erected – as ...

) *20 July 1515–bef. 1523 (d.): Joachim Bretunne *bef. 1527–bef. 1536 (res.): Richard Strete *2 April 1536 – 1557 (res.): David Pole (also Archdeacon of Derby from 1542; became Bishop of Peterborough)

Early modern

*15 January 1558–?: William Hill *1560–bef. 1579 (d.):

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*26 October 1579 – 1598 (res.): Godfrey Goldsborough (became Bishop of Gloucester) *16 November 1598 – 1605 (res.): Roger Dod (became

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) *1606–bef. 1613 (res.):

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(became

) *1613–1628 (d.): Thomas Master *10 September 1628–bef. 1642 (d.): William Jeffrey *?–bef. 1663 (d.): William Arnway *11 February 1663–bef. 1681 (d.): Robert Powell *18 July 1681–bef. 1726 (d.): Griffith Vaughan *5 October 1726–?: Samuel Garret *19 July 1732–bef. 1734 (d.): John Holt *13 March 1735 – 29 June 1770 (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 ...

*15 August 1770 – 17 September 1798 (d.):

Egerton Leigh Egerton Leigh (7 March 1815 – 1 July 1876) was a British landowner, soldier, Conservative politician and author. Personal life Leigh was the only son of Egerton Leigh and Wilhelmina Sarah, daughter of George Stratton, and succeeded his fat ...

(whose father

had been Archdeacon of Shropshire in Hereford diocese) *17 October 1798 – 24 December 1821 (res.):

John Woodhouse John Walker Woodhouse (28 January 188413 March 1955) was an Anglican suffragan bishop from 1945 until 1953. He was born on 28 January 1884 and educated at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career ...

(also Dean of Lichfield from 1807) *27 December 1821 – 23 December 1827 (d.): Hugh Owen *28 February 1828 – 3 October 1847 (d.):

Edward Bather Edward Bather (1779 – 3 October 1847), was Archdeacon of Salop (Shropshire, England)."Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity" Richardson, E p. 193: Cambridge, CUP, 2013 Bather was the eldest son of the R ...

*15 December 1847 – 23 March 1886 (res.): John Allen

Late modern

*1886–1896 (d.): Thomas Lloyd *1896–1916 (ret.):

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*December 1916 – 1946 (ret.): Horace Lambart (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) *1945–1959 (ret.) Horace Carpenter (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) *1959–1979 (ret.):

Sidney Austerberry The Ven. Sidney Denham Austerberry (28 October 1908 - 22 March 1996) was Archdeacon of Salop from 1959, to 1979. Austerberry was educated at Hanley High School and Egerton Hall, Manchester. he was ordained deacon in 1931 and priest in 1933. ...

(afterwards archdeacon emeritus) *1980–1987 (res.): Bob Jeffery (became Dean of Worcester) *1987–1998 (res.): George Frost (became

Archdeacon of Lichfield The Archdeacon of Lichfield (called Archdeacon of Stafford until 1980) is a senior cleric in the Diocese of Lichfield who is responsible for pastoral care and discipline of clergy in the Lichfield archdeaconry. The archdeaconry was erected – as ...

) *1999–2011 (ret.):

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*2011–present: Paul Thomas

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Archdeacon of Salop The Archdeacon of Salop is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield. The incumbent is Paul Thomas. History Shropshire was historically split between the diocese of Hereford (under the Archdeacon of Shropshir ...