List of Archdeacons of Chester
Encyclopedia
This is a list of archdeacon
s of Chester, a position now in the diocese of Chester
, in England. Before 1541 the archdeaconry belonged to the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield.
Archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, Chaldean Catholic, and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church...
s of Chester, a position now in the diocese of Chester
Diocese of Chester
The Diocese of Chester is a Church of England diocese in the Province of York based in Chester, covering the county of Cheshire in its pre-1974 boundaries...
, in England. Before 1541 the archdeaconry belonged to the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield.
- Ralph de Maidstone
- 1245 Silvester de EverdonSilvester de EverdonSilvester de Everdon was a medieval Bishop of Carlisle and Lord Chancellor of England.-Life:Everdon came from the village of Everdon, near Daventry in Northamptonshire, but other than the fact that he was related to a locally prominent family of Thorp, nothing else is known of his ancestry. He was...
- 1499-1515 John VeseyJohn VeseyJohn Vesey or Veysey was an English bishop.-Life:He was born John Harman, probably about 1462, the son of a yeoman farmer, in a farmhouse now known as Moor Hall Farm, Sutton Coldfield...
- 1515 Cuthbert TunstallCuthbert TunstallCuthbert Tunstall was an English Scholastic, church leader, diplomat, administrator and royal adviser...
- 1522–1541 William Knight
- 1541–1554 John Birde
- Dates unclear Robert Perceval
- ?–1595 Robert Rogers
- 1596–1619 Cuthbert Bellott
- 1619–1656 George Snell
- 1660–1667 John Carter
- 1666–1686 William Finmore
- 1686–1695 John Allen
- 1695–1707 Edmund Entwisle
- 1708–1727 John Thane
- 1727–1747 Lewis Stephens
- 1747–1751 William Powell
- 1751–1785 Abel Ward
- 1786 George Taylor
- 1786–1797 George Travis
- 1797–1800 Thomas Breithweite
- 1801–1847 Unwin Clarke
- 1847–1865 Isaac Wood
- Edward Ralph JohnsonEdward Ralph JohnsonThe Rt Rev Edward Ralph Johnson, DD, LLD, MA was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 19th century. He was born in 1828, educated at Wadham College, Oxford and ordained in 1850. His first post was a curacy in Farnborough, Warwickshire after which he was a Minor Canon at Chester...
- 1877-1886 John Lionel DarbyJohn Lionel DarbyJohn Lionel Darby, DD was Dean of Chester in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th Born in Ireland into an ecclesiastical family on 20 November 1831, he was educated at St Columba’s College and Trinity College Dublin and ordained in 1857. He began his career with...
- Norman Henry TubbsNorman Henry TubbsNorman Henry Tubbs was an eminent Anglican clergyman in the mid-20th century.Norman Henry Tubbs was educated at Highgate and Caius. Ordained in 1903 he was initially a Curate at Whitechapel Parish Church before moving to India as a CMS missionary, eventually becoming Principal of Bishop’s...
- Michael Gear
- 2002-2010 Donald AllisterDonald AllisterDonald Spargo Allister is a Church of England bishop. He was Archdeacon of Chester from 2002–2010, and on 5 November 2009 was nominated as the next Bishop of Peterborough, a post into which he was installed on 17 April 2010....
- September 2010–present Dr Michael Gilbertson