The Archdeacon of St Albans is an ecclesiastical post in the Church of England Diocese of St Albans in the Province of Canterbury.

History

Before the Dissolution of the Monasteries and Henrican reforms of the 16th century, there were Archdeacons of St Albans from within the Abbey. Registers list archdeacons starting in 1420, but this old "abbey archdeaconry" is supposed to have been created in the reign of Henry III (13th century).

The "diocesan archdeaconry" was newly constituted from St Albans Abbey's parishes in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire in 1550;[1] it remained a part of the Diocese of London until 1845, when it and was transferred to the diocese of Rochester, at which point its boundaries were made to coincide with those of Hertfordshire. Thirty years later, the archdeaconries of Essex, of Colchester, and of St Albans were taken from the Rochester diocese to create the Diocese of St Albans in 1878.[2] Shortly after the two Essex archdeaconries were erected into the Diocese of Chelmsford in 1914, the St Albans diocese received the ancient county archdeaconry of Bedford from the Diocese of Ely; there has once again been a third archdeaconry since the split on 1 January 1997 of the Hertford archdeaconry from the Archdeaconry of St Albans.

List of archdeacons

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011)

References

  1. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1969), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 1, pp. 9–11
  2. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1974), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 3, pp. 45–47
  3. ^ He proved the wills of Richard and Joan Willows of Winslow
  4. ^ "Lawrance, Walter John". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ "Gibbs, Kenneth Francis". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ "Parnell, Arthur Henry". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ^ "Skelton, Henry Aylmer". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ^ "Wood, Claud Thomas Thellusson". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  9. ^ "Cockbill, Charles Shipley". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  10. ^ "Snell, Basil Clark". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  11. ^ "Mumford, Peter". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  12. ^ "Farmbrough, David John". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  13. ^ "Norfolk, Edward Matheson". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  14. ^ "Davies, Philip Bertram". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  15. ^ "Cheetham, Richard Ian". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  16. ^ "Cunliffe, Helen Margaret". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  17. ^ People News January 2020 | Diocese of St Albans
  18. ^ "Smith, Jonathan Peter". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 23 November 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  19. ^ "Jane Mainwaring to be our next Archdeacon". 7 December 2019.
  20. ^ @Chris41863802 (14 March 2020). "Wonderful to see Hitchin Vicar Jane Mainwaring collated as Archdeacon of St Albans this afternoon. #blessed…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  21. ^ "(Order of Service) Eucharist with the Ordination and Consecration..." (PDF). Canterbury Cathedral. 2 February 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  22. ^ "New Archdeacon of St Albans". Diocese of St Albans. 8 January 2023. Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  23. ^ @StAlbansCath (20 May 2023). "Congratulations to the Revd Canon Charles Hudson..." (Tweet). Archived from the original on 21 May 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023 – via Twitter.

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