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. There is one suffragan (subordinate) bishop, the Bishop of Huntingdon. The diocese now c ...
. 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 Leices ...
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
Nicholas is a male given name and a surname.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the name and it ...
(
Archdeacon of Cambridge
The Archdeacon of Cambridge is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Diocese of Ely. The archdeacon is responsible for some clergy discipline and pastoral care in the Archdeaconry of Cambridge.
The archdeaconry has existed, as the Archdeaconry of ...
, Huntingdon and
Hertford
Hertford ( ) is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county. The parish had a population of 26,783 at the 2011 census.
The town grew around a ford on the River Lea ...
Henry of Huntingdon
Henry of Huntingdon ( la, Henricus Huntindoniensis; 1088 – AD 1157), the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th-century English historian and the author of ''Historia Anglorum'' (Medieval Latin for "History of the English"), ...
Roger of Raveningham
Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ...
Arnald de le Breto Arnald may refer to:
Names
*Jan Arnald (b. 1963), Swedish novelist and literary critic
*George Arnald (1763–1841), British painter
*Richard Arnald (1698–1756), English clergyman and biblical scholar
*William Arnald (-1802), English clergyman an ...
*14 August 1309–bef. 1318 (deprived): Guicard de le Breto ''(deprived for plurality)''
*1318–1327 (res.):
James Berkeley
James Berkeley (died 1327) was Bishop of Exeter for a period of three months in 1327, a term of office cut short by his death.
Origins
Berkeley was a younger son of Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley (1245-1321), ''The Wise'', feudal baron ...
William Whittlesey
William Whittlesey (or Whittlesea) (died 5 June 1374) was a Bishop of Rochester, then Bishop of Worcester, then finally Archbishop of Canterbury. He also served as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Life
Whittlesey was probably born in the Camb ...
Richard Hayman
Richard Hayman (March 27, 1920 – February 5, 2014) was an American musician who was the chief music arranger of the Boston Pops Orchestra for over 50 years, and served as a pops conductor for orchestras including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, ...
*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
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton, (27 March 1890 – 17 January 1981) was a British Army officer who held a variety of vital staff appointments between the First and Second World Wars, ultimately commanding the Burma Army during the ...
William Warham
William Warham ( – 22 August 1532) was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1503 to his death.
Early life and education
Warham was the son of Robert Warham of Malshanger in Hampshire. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxfo ...
*10 July 1502–bef. 1512 (d.): John Foster
*1 December 1512 – 1514 (res.):
John Constable
John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the ...
Richard Gwent
Dr Richard Gwent (died 1543) was a senior ecclesiastical jurist, pluralist cleric and administrator through the period of the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII. Of south Welsh origins, as a Doctor of both laws in the University ...
*27 July 1543–bef. 1560 (deprived):
Anthony Draycot
Anthony Draycot (died 1571 in Draycott in the Moors) was an English Roman Catholic churchman and lawyer. During the reign of Queen Mary he held a diocesan position as chancellor;
his role in condemning numerous Protestants to death is detailed i ...
''(deprived)''
*28 September 1560 – 1567 (d.): Robert Beaumont
*25 December 1567–bef. 1576 (res.):
John Bullingham
John Bullingham (died 1598) was the Bishop of Gloucester in the Church of England from 1581.
Life
Bullingham was a native of Gloucestershire. He was elected a probationer fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, in July 1550, being then B.A. In the la ...
*29 October 1576–bef. 1612 (d.): Robert Condall
*23 August 1612–bef. 1615 (d.): Nathan Gifford
*1 December 1615 – 1621 (res.):
William Laud
William Laud (; 7 October 1573 – 10 January 1645) was a bishop in the Church of England. Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Charles I in 1633, Laud was a key advocate of Charles I's religious reforms, he was arrested by Parliament in 16 ...
*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
Peter Mews (25 March 1619 – 9 November 1706) was an English Royalist theologian and bishop. He was a captain captured at Naseby and he later had discussions in Scotland for the Royalist cause. Later made a Bishop he would report on non-confor ...
White Kennett
White Kennett (10 August 166019 December 1728) was an English bishop and antiquarian. He was educated at Westminster School and at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where, while an undergraduate, he published several translations of Latin works, including ...
John Sturges
John Eliot Sturges (; January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. His films include '' Bad Day at Black Rock'' (1955), '' Gunfight at the O.K. Corral'' (1957), ''The Magnificent Seven'' (1960), '' The Great Escape'' (19 ...
*12 August 1725 – 17 March 1747 (d.): William Lunn
*28 March 1747 – 3 February 1757 (d.):
Timothy Neve
Timothy Neve (1724–1798) was an English churchman and academic.
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 Coll ...
*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
Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelt ''Midleton'') was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jac ...
*5 July 1814 – 5 February 1828 (d.):
James Hook James Hook may refer to:
* Captain Hook, the villain of J. M. Barrie's play and novel ''Peter Pan''
* James Hook (composer) (1746–1827), English composer and organist
* James Hook (priest) (1771–1828), English priest, Dean of Worcester
* Jame ...
*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
Gerald Vesey
Francis Gerald Vesey or Veasey (15 July 1832 – 18 March 1915) was a priest of the Church of England. He was the Archdeacon of Huntingdon from 1874 to 1915.
He was educated at Windlesham House School, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge ...
Dennis Page
Dennis Fountain Page (1 December 1919 – 19 January 2009) was the Anglican Bishop of Lancaster from 1975 until 1985.
Page was educated at Shrewsbury School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1943 and was a curate at ...
John Beer
John Bernard Beer, FBA (31 March 1926 – 10 December 2017) was a British literary critic. He was emeritus professor of English literature at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Best known as a scholar and critic ...
(also Archdeacon of Wisbech from 2003)
:'', the archdeaconry was renamed from Huntingdon to Huntingdon and Wisbech.''
*2005April 2022 (ret.): Hugh McCurdy
*25 September 2022present: Richard Harlow
Archdeacons of Wisbech
:''Wisbech was a separate archdeaconry from 1915 until 2004.''
*1915–6 January 1916 (d.):
Colin Campbell Colin may refer to:
* Colin (given name)
* Colin (surname)
* ''Colin'' (film), a 2008 Cannes film festival zombie movie
* Colin (horse) (1905–1932), thoroughbred racehorse
* Colin (humpback whale), a humpback whale calf abandoned north of Sydney ...
George Fox
George Fox (July 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and ...