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 ...
of Exeter is a senior ecclesiastical officer of the
Diocese of Exeter
The Diocese of Exeter is a Church of England diocese covering the county of Devon. It is one of the largest dioceses in England. The Exeter Cathedral, Cathedral Church of St Peter in Exeter is the seat of the diocesan Bishop of Exeter. It is pa ...
in the
Church of England
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. The modern diocese is divided into four archdeaconries: the archdeacon of Exeter supervises clergy and buildings within the area of the ''Archdeaconry of Exeter''.
History
The first recorded archdeacon of Exeter occurs in 1083, around the time when archdeacons were first appointed in Britain. Around that time, the Diocese of Exeter was divided into four archdeaconries: Exeter,
Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...
,
Totnes
Totnes ( or ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England, within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is about west of Paignton, about west-so ...
(or Totton) and
Barnstaple
Barnstaple ( or ) is a river-port town in North Devon, England, at the River Taw's lowest crossing point before the Bristol Channel. From the 14th century, it was licensed to export wool and won great wealth. Later it imported Irish wool, bu ...
(or Barum). This configuration of archdeaconries within the diocese remained for almost 800 years, until the creation of the independent
Diocese of Truro
The Diocese of Truro (established 1876) is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury which covers Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and a small part of Devon. The bishop's seat is at Truro Cathedral.
Geography and history
The di ...
from the Cornwall archdeaconry. On 22 March 1918, the archdeaconries were reconfigured and the
Archdeaconry of Plymouth created from Totnes archdeaconry. Presently, the diocese operates an informal 'area scheme' such that responsibility for roughly half the diocese is delegated to each suffragan bishop: special oversight is given to the
Bishop of Crediton
The Bishop of Crediton is an episcopal title which takes its name from the town of Crediton in Devon, England. The title was originally used by the Anglo-Saxons in the 10th and 11th centuries for a diocese covering Devon and Cornwall. It is now ...
for the Barnstaple and Exeter archdeaconries and to the
Bishop of Plymouth for the Plymouth and Totnes archdeaconries.
List of archdeacons
High medieval
Sole (or primary) archdeacons of the diocese
*?–28 June 1083 (d.):
Odo
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*?–11 March 1104 (d.):
Rolamnus
*aft. 1103–11 August 1107 (res.):
William Warelwast
William Warelwast (died 1137) was a medieval Norman cleric and Bishop of Exeter in England. Warelwast was a native of Normandy, but little is known about his background before 1087, when he appears as a royal clerk for King William II. Most o ...
:''During (or possibly before) the episcopacy of
William Warelwast
William Warelwast (died 1137) was a medieval Norman cleric and Bishop of Exeter in England. Warelwast was a native of Normandy, but little is known about his background before 1087, when he appears as a royal clerk for King William II. Most o ...
(1107–1137), the other three archdeaconries were instituted.''
Archdeacons of Exeter
*
Ernaldus (died 14 March 1136)
*bef. 1113–18 December 1138 (res.):
Robert Warelwast __NOTOC__
Robert Warelwast (died 1155) was a medieval Bishop of Exeter.
Life
Warelwast and his successor, Robert of Chichester are often confused.Barlow ''English Church'' p. 93 Warelwast was the nephew of the previous bishop, William Warelwast, ...
*bef. 1143–aft. 1143:
Walter de Constantiis
*bef. –aft. :
Henry Fitzharding
*?–17 February 1155 (d.):
Ralph
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The most common forms ...
*1155–1161 (res.):
Bartholomew Iscanus
Bartholomew of Exeter (died 1184) was a medieval Bishop of Exeter. He came from Normandy and after being a clerk of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was made Archdeacon of Exeter in 1155. He became Bishop of Exeter in 1161. Known for his knowl ...
:''
Baldwin of Forde
Baldwin of Forde or FordSharpe ''Handlist of Latin Writers'' pp. 66–67 ( – 19 November 1190) was Archbishop of Canterbury between 1185 and 1190. The son of a clergyman, he studied canon law and theology at Bologna and was tutor to Pop ...
,
Archdeacon of Totnes
The Archdeacon of Totnes or Totton is the senior ecclesiastical officer in charge of one of the oldest archdeaconries in England. It is an administrative division of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter and under the oversight of the Bishop suf ...
was said in 1165 to have held this post.''
*bef. 1205–1221 (d.):
Henry Fitz Robert
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People
* Henry (given name)
*Henry (surname)
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* Portuguese royalty
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** Henry, Count of Portugal ...
de Molesiis/
de Melvile
*?–December 1225 (res.):
Serlo
*aft. 1225–bef. 1236:
Bonus
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Bonus may also refer to:
Plac ...
*bef. 1236–21 September 1247 (d.):
Bartholomew
Bartholomew (Aramaic: ; grc, Βαρθολομαῖος, translit=Bartholomaîos; la, Bartholomaeus; arm, Բարթողիմէոս; cop, ⲃⲁⲣⲑⲟⲗⲟⲙⲉⲟⲥ; he, בר-תולמי, translit=bar-Tôlmay; ar, بَرثُولَماو ...
*bef. 1269–1269 (res.):
Roger de Thoriz
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*3 September 1270 – 1274 (res.):
John Norilis
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second ...
/
Norle
*22 December 1274 – 1282 (res.):
John of Pontoise
John of Pontoise (a.k.a. John de Pontissara; died 1304) was a medieval Bishop of Winchester in England.
Life
John of Pontoise was from Pontoise in Seine-et-Oise in France, but spent much of his life in England. In 1280, he was briefly Chancellor ...
*bef. 1284–aft. 1287:
Robert de Evesham
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
*bef. 1290–aft. 1292:
Peter de Insula (later
Archdeacon of Wells
The Archdeacon of Wells has been a senior clergy position in the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells sin the English reformation, before which it was part of the Roman Catholic Church. The post, having oversight over the archdeaconry of We ...
)
*bef. 1295–bef. 1311:
Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio (also
Archdeacon of Barnstaple
The Archdeaconry of Barnstaple or Barum is one of the oldest archdeaconries in England. It is an administrative division of the Diocese of Exeter in the Church of England.
History
The Diocese of Exeter was divided into four archdeaconries in No ...
;
Dean of Exeter
The Dean of Exeter is the head of the Chapter of Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, England. The chapter was established by William Briwere, Bishop of Exeter (1224–44) who set up the offices of dean and chancellor of Exeter Cathedral ...
from 1310)
Late medieval
*10 March 1308–? (deprived):
Richard de Plumstok/
de Plumpstock (unsuccessful royal grant)
*20 June 1311–bef. 1312 (d.):
William FitzRogo
*5 March 1312 – 1317 (res.):
John Wele
*16 August 1317 – 2 February 1318 (deprived):
Richard de Coleton
Richard de Coleton was Dean of Exeter
The Dean of Exeter is the head of the Chapter of Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, England. The chapter was established by William Briwere, Bishop of Exeter (1224–44) who set up the offices ...
(collation reversed)
*2 February 1318–bef. 1318 (d.):
Richard de Morcester
*11 June 1318–bef. 1329 (d.):
Thomas de Hereward
*29 November 1329 – 1330 (res.):
John de Northwode
*18 April–5 July 1330 (d.):
William de Grandisson/
Grandison
*12 July 1330 – June 1331 (exch.):
William Zouche
William de la Zouche (1299–1352) was Lord Treasurer of England and served as Archbishop of York from 1342 until his death.
Origins
He was the youngest son of Sir Roger de la Zouche (d.1302) of Lubbesthorpe in Leicestershire (younger brother ...
*June 1331–bef. 1345 (res.):
Thomas de Nassington
*15 December 1345–bef. 1360 (d.):
Otto
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The name is recorded fro ...
/
Otho de Northwode
*16 November–27 December 1360 (res.):
Philip de Beauchamp/
de Bello Campo (underage)
*27 December 1360 – 1361 (res.):
Stephen de Pempel/
de Penpel/
de Pympel
*1361–1371 (d.): Philip de Beauchamp ''(again)''
*20 August 1371 – 1 March 1375 (deprived):
Thomas de Swaby/
Swaby (royal grant; revoked)
*1 March 1371 – 1378 (deprived):
Peter Cardinal de Vernhio (
Peter de Everino; cardinal-deacon of
Santa Maria in Via Lata
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It is the Station days for Tuesday, the fifth week of lent.
History
The first Christi ...
)
*10 July 1379–aft. 1379:
John Cheyne
*bef. 1384–16 August 1397 (d.):
Philip Cardinal de Alencon (
Philippe Valois d'Alençon, cardinal-
bishop of Sabina
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ...
)
*8 November 1397–bef. 1399:
William Waltham
*9 April 1399–bef. 1399 (res.):
Nicholas Bubwith
Nicholas Bubwith (1355-1424) was a Bishop of London, Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Bath and Wells as well as Lord Privy Seal and Lord High Treasurer of England.
Bubwith was collated Archdeacon of Dorset in 1397 and again in 1400.'Archdeacons ...
*21 October 1399 – 1403 (res.):
Walter Cook
*11 June 1403 – 31 May 1408 (d.):
Angelo Cardinal Acciaioli (Cardinal-
bishop of Ostia
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)
*7 December 1408 – 28 February 1410 (exch.):
William Pilton/
Thomas Pylton
*–14 July 1410 (res.):
Anthony Cardinal de Calvis (
Antonio Calvi, cardinal-priest of
San Marco
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; unsuccessful papal grant)
*28 February 1410 – 1417 (res.):
Thomas Hendeman
*25 January–May 1417 (res.):
Roger Bolter
*21 September 1417–bef. 1425 (d.):
John Schute
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second ...
*1418:
Thomas Redman (ineffective exchange)
*27 September 1425–bef. 1438 (d.):
James Carslegh
*5 December 1438–bef. 1444 (res.):
Peter Stukeley/
Stukelegh
*21 March 1444 – 1453 (d.):
John Druell
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second ...
*8 June 1453 – 7 January 1475 (exch.):
Peter Courtenay
Peter Courtenay ( – 23 September 1492) was Bishop of Exeter (1478–87) and Bishop of Winchester (1487-92), and also had a successful political career during the tumultuous years of the Wars of the Roses.
Origins
Courtenay was the third so ...
*7 January 1475 – 23 October 1482 (d.):
Robert Aiscough/
Ayscogh
*aft. 1482–1492 (d.):
David Hopton
*3 February 1492– (res.):
Richard Nykke
Richard Nykke (or Nix or Nick; c. 1447–1535) became bishop of Norwich under Pope Alexander VI in 1515. Norwich at this time was the second-largest conurbation in England, after London.
Nykke is often called the last Catholic bishop of the ...
*bef. 1504 – November 1504 (res.):
Hugh Oldham
Hugh Oldham ( – 25 June 1519) was an English cleric who was Bishop of Exeter (1505–19) and a notable patron of education as a founder and patron of Manchester Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Born in Lancashire to a fami ...
*13 January 1505 – 1515 (res.):
Richard More
*19 June 1515–bef. 1519 (d.):
John Fulford
John Fulford (died 12 June 1518) was an English archdeacon.
He was the son of Sir Baldwin Fulford of Great Fulford, Devon who was Sheriff of Devon in 1460.
He was collated Archdeacon of Totnes from 1500 to 1515, Archdeacon of Cornwall from Apri ...
*19 January 1519 – 27 December 1555 (d.):
Adam Travesse
Early modern
*1551–?:
Rowland Taylor
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At the time of his death, he was Rector of Hadleigh in Suffolk. He was burnt at the stake at ne ...
(burned at the stake, 1555)
*30 January 1556–bef. 1569 (res.):
George Carew
*20 October 1569–bef. 1583 (d.):
Robert Fisher/
Fysher
*14 January 1583 – 25 November 1633 (d.):
Thomas Barrett
*16 January 1634–bef. 1643 (d.):
Aaron Wilson
*21 September 1643–bef. 1662 (res.):
Edward Young
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*18 August 1662–bef. 1665 (res.):
Robert Cary
*4 February 1665 – 28 March 1668 (d.):
Daniel Estcott
*28 March 1668 – September 1676 (res.):
Anthony Sparrow
Anthony Sparrow (1612–1685) was an English Anglican priest. He was Bishop of Norwich and Bishop of Exeter.
Career
Born in 1612, Sparrow was educated and became a fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge, and was ordained a priest in February 1 ...
,
Bishop of Exeter
The Bishop of Exeter is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. Since 30 April 2014 the ordinary has been Robert Atwell.
*24 October 1676 – 1 February 1704 (d.):
Edward Lake
*1 April 1704 – 1707 (res.):
Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop of Exeter
*7 February 1708 – 29 November 1716 (d.):
Ofspring Blackall
Ofspring Blackall (26 April 1655 (baptised) – 29 November 1716), Bishop of Exeter and religious controversialist, was born in London.
Early life and education
Baptized on 26 April 1655 at St Gregory by Paul's, he was the son of Thomas Blac ...
, Bishop of Exeter
*1 March 1717 – 21 October 1726 (d.):
Edward Trelawney
Edward Trelawney (c. 1653 – October 1726), of Coldrenick, near Liskeard, Cornwall, was an English clergyman who served as dean and archdeacon of Exeter between 1717 and 1726.Ursula Radford (1955). "An Introduction to the Deans of Exeter". Repor ...
*11 November 1726–bef. 1732:
Richard Ibbetson
*26 January 1732 – 1820: ''successive Bishops of Exeter held the archdeaconry for this period''
*29 December 1820 – 1865 (d.):
John Moore-Stevens (Moore-Stevens after July 1832)
Late modern
*April 1865 – February 1875 (d.):
Philip Freeman
Philip Freeman (1818–1875) was a Church of England cleric and Archdeacon of Exeter.
Life
Freeman, son of Edmund Freeman, of the Cedars, Combs, Suffolk, and Margaret, daughter of William Hughes of Wexford, Ireland, was born at the Cedars, Co ...
*February 1875 – 1888 (d.):
Henry Sanders
*1888–1909 (ret.):
Ernest Sandford
Ernest Grey Sandford (16 August 1839 – 8 March 1910) was an English first-class cricketer active in 1859 to 1861 who played for Oxford University in five matches. He was born in Dunchurch and died in Exmouth. He became a Church of England pr ...
*1909–1924 (ret.):
Frederick Sanders
*1925–1930 (res.):
William Surtees
William Frederick Surtees (16 October 1871 – 23 March 1956) was an Anglican bishop. He was the second suffragan Bishop of Crediton from 1930 to 1954.
Surtees was educated at Bedford School and King's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1900, he be ...
*1930–17 April 1951 (d.):
Huxley Thompson
*1951–1958 (res.):
Wilfrid Westall
Wilfrid Arthur Edmund Westall (20 November 190022 February 1982) was an English Anglican bishop in the 20th century. He served as Archdeacon of Exeter and as Bishop of Crediton (both in the Diocese of Exeter).
Early life
Westall was born into a ...
(also
Bishop suffragan of Crediton from 1954)
*1958–1970 (ret.):
Richard Babington (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)
*1981–1994 (res.):
John Richards
*1994–2002 (ret.):
Tony Tremlett
*2003–2005 (res.):
Paul Gardner
*2006–2012 (res.):
Penny Driver
Penelope May "Penny" Driver (born 20 February 1952) is an Anglican priest.
Driver was educated at Manchester University and ordained deacon in 1987 and priest in 1994. She began her ordained ministry as a curate in Cullercoats and the Newca ...
*28 April 20127 September 2019 (res.):
Christopher Futcher (became
Archdeacon in Cyprus)
*25 September 2019present:
Andrew Beane
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Archdeacon of Exeter
The Archdeacon of Exeter is a senior ecclesiastical officer of the Diocese of Exeter in the Church of England. The modern diocese is divided into four archdeaconries: the archdeacon of Exeter supervises clergy and buildings within the area of the ...