High Medieval[edit]

• aft. 1135–1161 (res.): Richard Peche
• aft. 1161–bef. 1175: Edmund
• bef. 1176–aft. 1184: Nicholas
• bef. 1184–aft. 1189: Richard Brito (I)
• bef. 1210–aft. 1210: Richard de Leghes
• c. 1224: Robert de Bosco
• c. 1229: Richard of Gloucester
• bef. c. 1231–aft. 1245: Alexander of Hales
• bef. 1240–aft. 1242: Adam de Hoo
• bef. 1245–aft. 1245: Lawrence of St Martin
• bef. 1248–1255 (res.): William of Kilkenny
• bef. 1272–bef. 1286: John Kirkby
• c. 1284: Richard Brito (II)
• bef. c. 1293–aft. 1297: Robert Stafford
• 14 November 1299–?: Peter de Insula

Late Medieval[edit]

• ?–bef. 1302 (d.): Gregory Giudice de Alatri
• 1302–29 August 1320 (exch.): Richard (son of Anibaldus Riccardi de Urbe)
• 29 August 1320 – 27 August 1335 (d.): John Cardinal Gaetani de Urbe (Cardinal-deacon of St Theodore)
• 27 August 1335 – 11 April 1340: Vacant (due to an ongoing dispute between the king and the pope)
• 11 April 1340–bef. 1349: Humphrey de Hastanges
• 11 July 1349–aft. 1352 (deprived): Hugh de Marisco (not consistently in post)
• 3 September 1349–bef. 1351 (d.): William de Sallowe
• 12 February 1352–bef. 1354 (d.): William Cross
• 30 July 1354 – 1355 (deprived): Richard Boule
• 25 January 1355 – 20 September 1358 (exch.): William de Driffield
• 20 September 1358–bef. 1361 (d.): John de Pipe
• 14 August 1361–bef. 1369 (res.): Richard de Birmingham
• 22 November–24 December 1369 (exch.): William Lombe
• 24 December 1369–bef. 1408 (d.): Robert de Stretton
• 20 June 1408 – 18 June 1422 (res.): Robert de Oxton
• 18 June 1422 – 1433 (res.): John Heyworth
• 22 May 1433–bef. 1442 (res.): Robert Esple
• 29 June 1442–bef. 1488 (d.): Roger Wall
• 1 December 1488 – 30 January 1505 (d.): Thomas Mills
• aft. 1505–bef. 1509: George Strangways
• aft. 1509–1512 (res.): Ralph Colyngwood (afterwards Dean of Lichfield)
• 2 October 1512–bef. 1558 (d.): John Blythe

Early modern[edit]

• c. 1558–c. 1559 (deprived): Henry Comberford (disputed)
• 1560–July 1577 (d.): Thomas Lever
• August 1577 – 1584 (res.): William James
• 14 November 1584 – 1631 (d.): William Hinton
• 13 May–16 September 1631 (d.): Samuel Brooke
• 29 September 1631 – 1642 (res.): Ralph Brownrigg
• 1643–bef. 1661 (d.): Francis Walsall (disputed)
• 1661–3 March 1673 (d.): John Riland
• 10 March 1673–bef. 1684 (d.): George Downing
• 1684–20 April 1703 (d.): Lancelot Addison (also Dean of Lichfield since 1683)
• 26 July 1703–bef. 1708 (d.): Richard Davies
• 9 August 1708–bef. 1741 (d.): William Wilson
• 9 June 1741 – 2 July 1778 (d.): Thomas Smallbrook
• 22 July 1778 – 4 April 1793 (d.): Norman Fotheringham
• 16 May 1793 – 20 February 1816 (d.): William Vyse
• 14 March 1816 – 28 September 1827 (d.): Charles Buckeridge
• 19 October 1827–bef. 1851 (res.): William Spooner

The archdeaconry was in Worcester diocese from 24 January 1837.

• 31 March 1851 – 22 March 1873 (d.): John Sandford

Late modern[edit]

• 1873–1887 (ret.): Charles Holbech^[6]
• 1887–1908 (ret.): William Bree^[7]
• 1908–9 November 1922 (d.): George Arbuthnot^[8]

On 6 September 1918, the archdeaconry was moved to the new Diocese of Coventry.

• 1923–1927 (res.): Claude Blagden^[9]
• 1927–1935 (res.): Joseph Hunkin^[10]
• 1935–1940 (res.): Richard Brook^[11]
• 1941–1946 (res.): Richard Howard (also Provost of Coventry, 1933–1958)^[12]
• 1946–1965 (ret.): Leonard Stanford (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[13]
• 1965–1977 (ret.): Eric Buchan (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[14]
• 1977–1983 (res.): Peter Bridges^[15]
• 1983–1989 (res.): Alan Morgan^[16]
• 1989–2000 (ret.): Ian Russell^[17][18]
• 2001–2007 (res.): Mark Bryant^[19]
• 2008–2012 (ret,): Ian Watson (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[20]
• December 2012 – 31 August 2017: John Green (Acting, April–December 2012;^[21] called Archdeacon Pastor)^[4]
• July 2017 – 18 March 2018: Clive Hogger (Acting;^[22] assistant archdeacon since March 2018)^[23]
• 18 March 2018 – January 2023 (res.): Sue Field (called Archdeacon Pastor)^[23] was required to resign in January 2023 following disciplinary proceedings.^[24]