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The Archdeacon of Canterbury is an office-holder in the Diocese of Canterbury in the Church of England. Like other archdeacons, he or she is an administrator in the diocese at large (having oversight of parishes in roughly half the diocese) and is a Canon Residentiary of the cathedral.

Furthermore, the Archdeacon of Canterbury has an additional role beyond that of other archdeacons, traditionally serving as the Archbishop of Canterbury's representative at enthronement ceremonies for new diocesan bishops in his province. At these services, he or she reads the Archbishop's mandate and, taking the new bishop by the hand, conducts him on to his throne.

The present incumbent is Sheila Watson.

Selected office-holders

Medieval

• John 1115-1125, later Bishop of Rochester
• Walter 1139-1148, later Bishop of Rochester
• Roger de Pont L'Evêque 1148–1154, later Archbishop of York
• Thomas Becket 1154–1162, later Archbishop of Canterbury
• Geoffrey Ridel 1163–1173 later Bishop of Ely
• Herbert Poore 1176–1194 later Bishop of Salisbury
• Philip of Poitou 1194–1195 later Bishop of Durham
• Henry Sandford 1213-1226 later Bishop of Rochester
• William Middleton 1275-1278 later Bishop of Norwich
• Prospero Colonna June 1424 to December 1434

16th century

• Hugh Peynthwyn, 1495–1504
• William Warham, 1505–1534
• Edmund Cranmer, 1534–1554
• Nicholas Harpsfield, 1554–1559
• Edmund Guest, 1559–1564, Bishop of Rochester and subsequently Bishop of Salisbury
• Edmund Freake 1564–1576, Bishop of Rochester, subsequently Bishop of Norwich and then Bishop of Worcester
• William Redman, 1576–1594, subsequently Bishop of Norwich

17th century

• Charles Fotherby, 1595–1619, subsequently Dean of Canterbury
• William Kingsley, 1619–1648
  • interregnum
• George Hall, 1660–1668, Bishop of Chester
• William Sancroft, 1668–1670, later Archbishop of Canterbury
• Samuel Parker, 1670–1688, also Bishop of Oxford
• John Battely, 1688–1708

18th century

• Thomas Green, 1708–1721, later Bishop of Norwich and then Bishop of Ely
• Thomas Bowers, 1721–1724, also Bishop of Chichester 1722–1724
• Samuel Lisle, 1724–1748, also Bishop of St Asaph from 1744, and then Bishop of Norwich
• John Head, 1748–1769
• William Backhouse, 1769–1788
• John Lynch, 1788–1803

19th century

• Houstonne Radcliffe, 1803–1822
• Hugh Percy, 1822–1825, later Bishop of Carlisle
• James Croft, 1825–1869
• Edward Parry, 1869–1870, later Suffragan Bishop of Dover

1900-present

• Leonard Jauncey White-Thomson, 1918–1924 , later Bishop of Ely

• John Lawrence Pritchard, 1996–2002, later Bishop of Oxford
• Patrick Evans, 2002–2007
• Sheila Watson, 2007–

References

• British History Online: Archdeacons of Canterbury 1066–1300 accessed on October 25, 2007
• British History Online: Archdeacons of Canterbury 1300–1541 accessed on 8 January 2010
• British History Online: Archdeacons of Canterbury 1541–1857: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, volume 3: Canterbury, Rochester and Winchester dioceses (1974), pp. 15-17. Date accessed: 10 January 2010.
• British History Online Bishops of Ely accessed on October 25, 2007

Vidoue (talk) 21:54, 10 January 2010 (UTC)