The Archdeacon of Bath is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells. The post, having oversight over the archdeaconry of Bath, has existed since the twelfth century. The archdeaconry includes five deaneries.

List of archdeacons

Some archdeacons without territorial titles are recorded from around 1086; see Archdeacon of Wells.

High Medieval[edit]

bef. 1100–aft. 1120: Gerbert
bef. July 1141–aft. 1154: Martin
aft. 1154–aft. 1165: Thomas (I)
c. 1167: Baldwin
c. 1167–bef. 1176: John Comyn
bef. 1182–aft. 1206: Peter of Blois (also Archdeacon of London from 1202)
c. 1208–aft. 1212: John of Colchester (disputed)
bef. 1214–c. 1234 (d.): Hugh of Wells
c. 1234–aft. 1236: Nicholas de Neville
bef. 1238–aft. 1246: Henry Tessun
bef. 1247–aft. 1248: Nicholas Tessun
bef. 1257–1257 (res.): Robert de Chauncy (afterwards Bishop of Carlisle)
bef. 1259–1259 (res.): John de Cheam (afterwards Bishop of Glasgow)
bef. 1264–aft. 1266: Walter de Merton (also Lord Chancellor;

later Bishop of Rochester, 1274)

bef. 1268–aft. 1269: Thomas (II)
bef. 1277–aft. 1285: Ralph de Wicham/Wikham
bef. 1292–aft. 1294: Thomas of Axbridge
bef. 1295–bef. 1297: Iterius Bochard of Angoulême

Late Medieval[edit]

8 February 1309 – 1333 (d.): Henry of Sandwich
c. 1333–29 September 1342 (exch.): Matthew de Valenciis
29 September 1342 – 1353 (d.): Walter de Hulle
7 March 1353–aft. 1366: John Power
bef. 1380–1380: Hugh Herle
1380–bef. 1386: Ranulf de Gorce de Monterac
23 July 1386–bef. 1428 (res.): Roger Harewell
30 January 1428 – 10 December 1449 (exch.): Thomas Warde
10 December 1449–bef. 1460 (d.): William Sprever
26 February–May 1460 (res.): Hugh Sugar/Norris
6 May 1460–bef. 1497 (d.): Richard Lichefeld
17 March 1497 – 1498 (res.): William Cosyn (afterwards Dean of Wells)
31 March–July 1499 (res.): Thomas Beaumont (later Archdeacon of Wells)
12 July 1499 – 1502 (res.): John Pikman
4 September 1502 – 1518 (d.): Thomas Tomyow
bef. 1535–17 October 1535 (d.): Robert Shorton
bef. 1536–November 1557 (d.): Walter Cretyng

Early modern[edit]

bef. 1561–aft. 1569: James Bonde
28 November 1570 – 1584 (res.): Tobias Matthew (afterwards Dean of Durham)
1 April 1584 – 12 March 1614 (d.): William Powell
18 April 1614 – 1 April 1638 (d.): Timothy Revett^[1]
2 April 1638 – 1643 (res.): William Piers (afterwards Archdeacon of Taunton)
30 December 1643–bef. 1661: William Davis
6 June 1661 – 23 June 1690 (d.): John Sellick
31 October 1690 – 11 December 1711 (d.): William Clement
31 December 1711 – 1733 (d.): William Hunt
5 September 1733 – 19 April 1743 (d.): Lawson Huddleston
21 May 1743 – 1761 (res.): Samuel Squire (also Dean of Bristol from 1760;

afterwards Bishop of St David's)^[2]

26 May 1761 – 1767 (res.): Thomas Camplin (afterwards Archdeacon of Taunton)
12 February 1768 – 25 July 1786 (d.): John Chapman
26 September 1786 – 18 July 1798 (d.): Edmund Lovell
28 July 1798 – 11 June 1815 (d.): James Phillott
22 July 1815 – 1817 (res.): George Trevelyan (afterwards Archdeacon of Taunton)
26 April 1817 – 27 May 1820 (d.): Josiah Thomas
17 June 1820–bef. 1839 (res.): Charles Moysey
6 March 1839 – 19 August 1852 (d.): William Brymer
17 September 1852 – 11 October 1860 (d.): William Gunning

Late modern[edit]

1860–1895: Robert William Browne
1895–1909: Hilton Bothamley
1909–29 September 1924 (d.): Lancelot Fish
1924–1938: Sydney Boyd
1938–1947: William Selwyn (afterwards Bishop suffragan of Fulham)
1947–1962: Edwin Cook
1962–1971: Arthur Hopley
1971–1975: Tom Baker (afterwards Dean of Worcester)
1975–1995: John Burgess
1996–2004: Bob Evens (afterwards Bishop suffragan of Crediton)
May 2005 – 30 June 2017 (ret.): Andy Piggott^[3]
4 July – 5 November 2017: Chris Hare (acting)^[4]
5 November 2017 – present: Adrian Youings^[5]

References

Sources

Greenway, Diana E. (2001), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300, vol. 7, pp. 26–31
Jones, B. (1964), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, vol. 8, pp. 14–15
Horn, Joyce M. (1979), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 5, pp. 18–20

v t e Archdeacons of Bath
High Medieval	Gerbert Martin Thomas (I) Baldwin John Comyn Peter of Blois John of Colchester Hugh of Wells Nicholas de Neville Henry Tessun Nicholas Tessun Robert de Chauncy John de Cheam Walter de Merton Thomas (II) Ralph de Wicham/Wikham Thomas of Axbridge Iterius Bochard of Angoulême
Late Medieval	Henry of Sandwich Matthew de Valenciis Walter de Hulle John Power Hugh Herle Ranulf de Gorce de Monterac Roger Harewell Thomas Warde William Sprever Hugh Sugar/Norris Richard Lichefeld William Cosyn Thomas Beaumont
Early modern	John Pikman Thomas Tomyow Robert Shorton Walter Cretyng James Bonde Tobias Matthew William Powell Timothy Revett William Piers William Davis John Sellick William Clement William Hunt Lawson Huddleston Samuel Squire Thomas Camplin John Chapman Edmund Lovell
Late modern	James Phillott George Trevelyan Josiah Thomas Charles Moysey William Brymer William Gunning Robert Browne Hilton Bothamley Lancelot Fish Sydney Boyd William Selwyn Edwin Cook Arthur Hopley Tom Baker John Burgess Bob Evens Andy Piggott Chris Hare (acting) Adrian Youings

v t e Diocese of Bath and Wells
Wells Cathedral Bishop's Palace, Wells Bath Abbey Glastonbury Abbey (ruins)
Office holders	Michael Beasley, Bishop of Bath and Wells Ruth Worsley, Bishop suffragan of Taunton and Acting Bishop of Coventry AEO: Paul Thomas, Bishop suffragan of Oswestry & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Dean of Wells (vacant) Simon Hill, Archdeacon of Taunton Anne Gell, Archdeacon of Wells Adrian Youings, Archdeacon of Bath
Historic offices	For the Bishops of Wells (10th century–1090), Bishops of Bath (1090–1197 & 1219–1245) and Bishops of Bath and Glastonbury (1197–1219), see Bishop of Bath and Wells
Benefices and parishes	List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells

Archdeacons in the Church of England

Current

northern province	Auckland Blackburn Bolton Bradford Carlisle Chester Cleveland Doncaster Durham East Riding (York) Halifax Lancaster Leeds Lindisfarne Liverpool Knowsley and Sefton Macclesfield Man Manchester Newark Nottingham Northumberland Pontefract Richmond and Craven Rochdale St Helens and Warrington Salford Sheffield and Rotherham Stoke Sunderland Walsall West Cumberland Westmorland and Furness Wigan and West Lancashire York (West Riding)
southern province	Ashford Aston Barnstaple Barking Bath Bedford Berkshire Birmingham Bodmin Boston Bournemouth Brighton & Lewes Bristol Bromley & Bexley Buckingham Cambridge Canterbury Chelmsford Charing Cross ("Two Cities") Cheltenham Chichester Colchester Cornwall Coventry ("Archdeacon Pastor") Croydon Derby City and South Derbyshire Derbyshire Peak and Dales Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley East Derbyshire Eastern Archdeaconry (Europe) Exeter France Germany and Northern Europe Gibraltar Gloucester Hackney Hampstead Harlow Hastings Hereford Hertford Horsham Huntingdon and Wisbech Ipswich Isle of Wight Italy and Malta Lambeth Leicester Lewisham & Greenwich Lichfield Lincoln London Loughborough Ludlow Lynn Maidstone Malmesbury The Meon Middlesex Norfolk North West Europe Northampton Northolt Norwich Oakham Oxford Plymouth Portsdown Reigate Rochester St Albans Salop/Shropshire (Lichfield diocese) Sarum Sherborne Southend Southwark Stansted Stow and Lindsey Sudbury Suffolk Surrey Switzerland Taunton Tonbridge Totnes Wandsworth Warwick ("Archdeacon Missioner") Wells West Ham Westminster Wilts Winchester Worcester
non-territorial	Military archdeacons: Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force Prison Service "Archdeacon Missioner" (see Warwick) & "Archdeacon Pastor" (see Coventry) Rural Mission (Eds & Ips diocese)

Former

England

Archdeacons in the Diocese in Europe: The Aegean
Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
Europe
Italy
Malta
Northern France
the Riviera
Scandinavia
Scandinavia and Germany
South-Eastern Europe
Spain (or the Peninsula) and North Africa