The Archdeacon of Horsham is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the

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Diocese of Chichester The Diocese of Chichester is a Church of England diocese based in Chichester, covering Sussex. It was founded in 681 as the ancient Diocese of Selsey, which was based at Selsey Abbey, until the see was translated to Chichester in 1075. The cathe ...

. The diocese almost exactly covers the counties of East and West Sussex and the City of Brighton and Hove, stretching for nearly a hundred miles (160 km) along the south coast of England.

History

The diocese originally had two archdeaconries created in the 12th century, namely that of

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and that of

Lewes Lewes () is the county town of East Sussex, England. It is the police and judicial centre for all of Sussex and is home to Sussex Police, East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service, Lewes Crown Court and HMP Lewes. The civil parish is the centre of ...

; a third archdeaconry was created in 1912 at

Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...

. VII The archdeaconries were then reorganised under

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(

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) on 28 June 1975 with the Archdeaconry of Lewes being merged with that of Hastings and a new archdeaconry at Horsham being created. On 12 May 2014, it was announced that the diocese was to take forward proposals to create a fourth archdeaconry (initially referred to as Brighton.) Since Lewes itself would be within the new archdeaconry, Lewes & Hastings archdeaconry would become simply Hastings archdeaconry. On 8 August 2014, the ''

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'' reported that the archdeaconry of Brighton & Lewes had been created and Hastings archdeaconry renamed. Today the

is assisted by the

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s of

Horsham Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby to ...

and

. There is one archdeacon for

, one for Horsham, one for Brighton & Lewes and one for the

archdeaconry. The Bishop of Horsham oversees the archdeaconries of Chichester and Horsham, while the Bishop of Lewes oversees the archdeaconries of Brighton & Lewes and Hastings.

List of archdeacons

*1975–1983 (res.):

Frederick Kerr-Dineen Frederick George Kerr-Dineen was an Anglican priest in the 20th century. He was born on 26 August 1915 and educated at St John's College, Durham. He was ordained in 1941 and was a curate at St Paul's Portman Square and St John's Weymouth. In 1952 ...

*1983–2002 (ret.): William Filby (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) *2003–30 June 2014 (ret.):

Roger Combes Roger Matthew Combes (born 12 June 1947) is a retired Archdeacon of Horsham. Birth and education Combes was educated at King's College London, and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Church career He was ordained in 1974 and was a curate at St Paul's Onslo ...

*21 September 2014June 2020 (ret.):

Fiona Windsor Julie Fiona Windsor (called Fiona; born 2 September 1959) is a British Anglican priest. She served as the Archdeacon of Horsham in the Diocese of Chichester from 2014 until her retirement in 2020. Windsor was educated at Ridley Hall, Cambridge and ...

*March 20202021: Julia Peaty & Derek Welsman, Acting Archdeacons *4 July 2021present: Angela Martin (Acting since 1 March)

References

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