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 Church, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denomina ...

of Llandaff is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the

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Diocese of Llandaff The Diocese of Llandaff is an Anglican (Church in Wales) diocese that traces its roots to pre-Reformation times as heir of a Catholic bishopric. It is headed by the Bishop of Llandaff, whose seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Pet ...

. The archdeacon is the senior priest with responsibility over the area of the archdeaconry of Llandaff, one of two archdeaconries in the diocese (the other is

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). The archdeaconry of Llandaff currently consists of two large deaneries: Cardiff, and Eglwysilan.

History

The first recorded archdeacons of Llandaff occur soon after the

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. However, no territorial titles are recorded until after . Until 1843, when the separate position of Dean of Llandaff was created, the Archdeacon also performed the duties of cathedral dean.

List of archdeacons of Llandaff

* Leofric * 1059-1104 Abraham * Urban I * 1126 Uhtred * 1140–1148 Urban II * c.1154–1159 Ralph * 1165–1179 William * 1172–1179 Urban III * 1217–1242 Maurice * 1243 Ralph of Newcastle * 1244 Thomas, the king's chaplain * 1260 Nicholas * 1260–c1287 Simon of Radnor * 1287 Robert de Briouze * 1289 Henry de Cranborne or Wager * 1290 Robert * 1323,1337 Alexander de Monmouth * 1338 Richard de Halton * 1347 Thomas de Burgherssh * ?–1361 John de Coventry * 1361,1364 Henry Despenser * 1361–1368 Robert de Walsham * 1363–? Thomas Banastre of Eltisley * 1366 Thomas de Southam * 1368–? Richard Boule * ?–1373 Thomas de Alston * 1373–? John de Sulthorn * 1385,1393 Robert de la More * 1396–? Thomas Orewelle * ?-1447 Robert Cole * 1447–1454 John Stradling * 1454–? Lewis Byford * 1529,1541 John Quarre * ?–1564 John Smith * 27 April 1564 – 17 April 1571 Giles Langley * 26 April 1571–? Lewis Baker * 28 May 1596–? Morgan Roberts * 6 May 1601 – 17 July 1606 Cadwalader Hughes * 9 February 1607–December 1623 Robert Robotham * 6 December 1623–? Francis Foxton *4 August 1626–May 1646 Thomas Prichard *1646–? John Clegge * 16 October 1660 – 30 June 1666 Francis Davies (afterwards

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, 29 January 1667) * 18 January 1668 Edward Gamage * Edward Gamage Jnr * Thomas Gamage * 1686-1705

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(afterwards

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, 1705) * 1706-1722

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* 1722-1749 John Evans * 1749–1777 John Fulham * 1777–1789 William Adams * 1789–? John Porter * c.1796–1843 John Probyn (also Dean of Llandaff) * 1843–1857 Thomas Williams (afterwards Dean of Llandaff, 1857) * 1857–1859

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(afterwards

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, 1859) * 1859–?1877 Henry Lynch Blosse * 1877-1897 John Griffiths * 1897–1913 Frederic Edmondes * 1913–1924 James Buckley * 1924–1930 David Davies * 1930–1938 John James * 1938–1953 Richard Jones * 1953–1964 Gwynno James (afterwards Dean of Brecon, 1964) * 1965–1969

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* 1969–1971

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* 1971–1977 Alun Davies (afterwards Dean of Llandaff, 1977) * 1977–1988 Lewis Clarke * 1988–1991 Albert Lewis * 1991–1997 (ret.) David Lee * 1998–2008 (ret.) Bill Thomas * 31 May 2009July 2021 Peggy Jackson *5 September 2021present Rhod Green (previously called Rod) Roderick Ernest Alexander Green (called Rhod since ; previously called Rod; born 1974) was collated Archdeacon of Llandaff on 5 September 2021. He trained for the ministry at

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and received ordination in the

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: he was made deacon at

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2007 (30 June) — by

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, at

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— and ordained priest on 17 May 2008 — by Stephen Oliver,

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, at St John-at-Hackney. He then served all his ministry in the

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prior to his archidiaconal collation: as curate at Christ Church, Spitalfields, Associate Vicar at St Paul's Church, Shadwell (an HTB church plant), and Vicar in Harrow as several churches there united as a "resource church".

Notes

References

{{Archdeacons in the Church in Wales

Llandaff Llandaff (; ; from 'church' and ''River Taff, Taf'') is a district, Community (Wales), community and coterminous electoral ward in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It was incorporated into the city in 1922. It is the seat of the Bisho ...