The Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the
Diocese of Ely
The Diocese of Ely is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury. It is headed by the Bishop of Ely, who sits at Ely Cathedral in Ely, Cambridgeshire, Ely. There is one suffragan bishop, suffragan (subordinate) bishop, the Bisho ...
. The archdeacon is responsible for some clergy discipline and pastoral care in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon and Wisbech.
History
The Archdeaconry of Huntingdon was a part of the
Diocese of Lincoln
The Diocese of Lincoln forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England. The present diocese covers the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire.
History
The diocese traces its roots in an unbroken line to the Pre-Reformation Diocese of Leice ...
from (at the latest) the early 12th century. As such it is the oldest continually occupied Archdeaconry in England. The archdeaconry was moved to Ely diocese by Order in Council on 30 May 1837. The archdeaconry of Wisbech was created from several deaneries not already in an archdeaconry, by Order in Council on 5 February 1915. , appointments to the Wisbech archdeaconry ceased and Huntingdon archdeaconry was renamed to the present Archdeaconry of Huntingdon and Wisbech.
List of archdeacons
High Medieval
*bef. 1092–1110 (d.):
Nicholas
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(
Archdeacon of Cambridge, Huntingdon and
Hertford
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The town grew around a Ford (crossing), ford on ...
; also called
archdeacon of Lincoln
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)
*bef. 1123–aft. 1156:
Henry of Huntingdon
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*bef. 1166–aft. 1160:
Hugh
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''(disputed)''
*bef. 1166–bef. 1187:
Nicholas de Sigillo
*bef. 1192–aft. 1204:
Robert de Hardres
*bef. 1206–bef. 1214 (res.):
William de Cornhill
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Some sources say William was the son of Henry de Cornhill, who was sheriff of London from 1187 to 1189 and was a brother to Reginald de Cornhill, one ...
*bef. 1214–aft. 1223 (res.):
Robert de Hailes/
of Hailes
*bef. 1223–bef. 1228:
Philip de Fauconberg
*bef. 1230–bef. 1239:
Gilbert de Tantone
*bef. 1240–aft. 1245:
William de Arundel
*bef. 1246–?:
T.
*bef. 1247–aft. 1253:
Robert de Hicche
*bef. 1255–aft. 1254:
R. ''(disputed)''
*bef. 1256–aft. 1275:
Roger of Raveningham
*bef. 1277–aft. 1282:
William of Newark
*bef. 1287–:
Roger Martival
*15 March 1295–? (dep.):
John de Colonna ''(papal provision reversed after collation)''
*26 December 1295–bef. 1308 (d.):
Walter Wutton/
of Wootton
Late Medieval
*22 May 1308–bef. 1309 (d.):
Arnald de le Breto
*14 August 1309–bef. 1318 (deprived):
Guicard de le Breto ''(deprived for plurality)''
*1318–1327 (res.):
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*1329–bef. 1337 (d.):
Richard Brinchesle
*4 July 1337 – 1361 (res.):
William Whittlesey
*1344:
Pedro Cardinal Gòmez de Barroso (''ineffective provision'';
cardinal-bishop of Sabina
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)
*16 October–October 1361 (d.):
Fortanerius Vassalli OFM,
Patriarch of Grado
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*aft. 1362–?:
John Swynle/
Swynlegh
*May 1386:
John Lincoln of Grimsby ''(probably ineffective royal grant)''
*1386–24 February 1394 (exch.):
William Welborne
*24 February 1394–aft. 1413:
Eudo Zouche/
la Zouche
*24 March–22 July 1414 (d.):
John Tibbay
*26 July 1414–bef. 1421 (res.):
Richard Hethe
*15 December 1421–?:
William Lassells
*bef. 1447–bef. 1462 (d.):
Richard Morsby
*20 February 1462–bef. 1464 (d.):
Richard Hayman
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*25 September 1464–March 1475 (d.):
Vincent Clement
*27 March 1475 – 1478 (res.):
John Morton
*13 June 1478 – 1493 (res.):
John Blyth
*17 February–28 July 1494 (res.):
Thomas Hutton
*28 July 1494–bef. 1496:
Robert Sherborne
*5 March 1496–bef. April 1496 (res.):
Christopher Urswick
*28 April 1496 – 1502 (res.):
William Warham
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Early life and education
Warham was the son of Robert Warham of Malshanger in Hampshire. He was educated at Winchester College and New Colleg ...
*10 July 1502–bef. 1512 (d.):
John Foster
*1 December 1512 – 1514 (res.):
John Constable
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*3 June 1514–bef. November 1514 (res.):
William Atwater
*18 November 1514 – 1523 (res.):
Richard Rawlins
*12 September 1523 – 1541 (res.):
William Knight
Early modern
*5 April 1542–July 1543 (d.):
Richard Gwent
*27 July 1543–bef. 1560 (deprived):
Anthony Draycot ''(deprived)''
*28 September 1560 – 1567 (d.):
Robert Beaumont
*25 December 1567–bef. 1576 (res.):
John Bullingham
*29 October 1576–bef. 1612 (d.):
Robert Condall
*23 August 1612–bef. 1615 (d.):
Nathan Gifford
*1 December 1615 – 1621 (res.):
William Laud
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*26 April 1622–June 1633 (d.):
Owen Gwyn
*12 January 1634 – 22 August 1649 (d.):
Richard Holdsworth
*19 November 1649 – 18 March 1665 (res.):
Peter Mews
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*18 March 1666 – 4 March 1667 (d.):
William Johnson
*27 April 1667–bef. 1669 (d.):
Henry Downhall
*29 March 1670–bef. 1673 (d.):
Richard Perrinchief
*5 September 1673 – 14 May 1701 (res.):
John Hammond
*15 May 1701 – 1720 (res.):
White Kennett
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(also
Bishop of Peterborough
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The diocese covers the counties of Northamptonshire (including the Soke of Peterborough) and Rutland. The see is in ...
from 1718)
*15 April 1721–bef. 1725 (res.):
John Sturges
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*12 August 1725 – 17 March 1747 (d.):
William Lunn
*28 March 1747 – 3 February 1757 (d.):
Timothy Neve
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Life
He was born at Spalding, Lincolnshire, on 12 October 1724, the only surviving son, by his first wife, of Timothy Neve the antiquary. He was admitted at Corpus Christi Colle ...
*22 April 1757 – 31 January 1770 (d.):
Charles Jenner
*23 February 1770 – 8 September 1773 (d.):
Nicholas Cholwell
*1 January 1774 – 22 February 1794 (d.):
Michael Tyson
*16 April 1794 – 1812 (res.):
Thomas Parkinson
*4 April 1812 – 1814 (res.):
Thomas Middleton
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*5 July 1814 – 5 February 1828 (d.):
James Hook
*25 February 1828 – 9 February 1856 (d.):
John Banks Hollingworth
:''On 30 May 1837, the archdeaconry was moved from Lincoln diocese to the Diocese of Ely.''
*22 March 1856 – 16 March 1870 (res.): The Hon
Henry Yorke
Late modern
*1870–1874 (res.):
Francis McDougall
*1874–18 March 1915 (d.):
Gerald Vesey
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He was educated at Windlesham House School, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, g ...
*1915–28 September 1921 (d.):
Thomas Hodgson
*1921–1943 (ret.):
Kenneth Knowles (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)
*1943–1947 (res.):
William Uthwatt (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)
*1947–1955 (ret.):
James Jones
*1954–1965 (ret.):
Arthur Royle
*1965–1975 (res.):
Dennis Page
*1975–1977 (res.):
David Young
*1978–1996 (ret.):
Richard Sledge
*1997–2004 (res.):
John Beer (also Archdeacon of Wisbech from 2003)
:'', the archdeaconry was renamed from Huntingdon to Huntingdon and Wisbech.''
*2005April 2022 (ret.):
Hugh McCurdy
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McCurdy was educated at Portsmouth Polytechnic and the University of Wales. He was ordained after a period of ...
*25 September 2022present:
Richard Harlow
Archdeacons of Wisbech
:''Wisbech was a separate archdeaconry from 1915 until 2004.''
*1915–6 January 1916 (d.):
Colin Campbell
*1916–1923 (res.):
James Srawley
*1924–1945 (res.):
George Ward
*1945–1953 (res.):
Seiriol Evans
*1953–1964 (res.): John Pelloe
*1965–6 November 1978 (d.):
George Fox
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*1979–1984 (res.):
William Patterson
*1984–1993 (res.):
David Fleming
*1995–December 2002 (ret.):
Jim RoneDiocese of Ely – Announcement of death of the Ven Jim Rone
(Accessed 17 March 2014)
*2003–2004 (res.): John Beer ''(Acting?)''
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