The Archdeacon of Glasgow was the head of the Archdeaconry of Glasgow, a sub-division of the Diocese of Glasgow. He was one of two archdeacons serving the Bishop of Glasgow, the other one being the Archdeacon of Teviotdale

Archdeacon of Teviotdale

The Archdeacon of Teviotdale was the head of the Archdeaconry of Teviotdale, a sub-division of the Diocese of Glasgow. He was one of two archdeacons serving the Bishop of Glasgow. As the name describes, this archdeacon was responsible for the Teviotdale region of the Scottish Borders region...

. This archdeacon

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...

 (Glasgow) was responsible for region of the Diocese of Glasgow outside the Teviotdale region of the Scottish Borders

Scottish Borders

The Scottish Borders is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the non-metropolitan counties of Northumberland...

 region. The position was an important position within the medieval Scottish church, because of the high number of parish churches

Parish church

A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....

 in the archdeaconry.

List of archdeacons of Glasgow

• Ascelin, 1126 x 1127-1153 x 1159
• Enguerrand
  Enguerrand
  Enguerrand was a 12th century bishop of Glasgow. He had previously been Archdeacon of Teviotdale, and had served king Máel Coluim IV as Chancellor of Scotland between 1161 and 1164. He was elected Bishop of Glasgow on Sunday, September 20, 1164, and consecrated on October 28 at the hands of Pope...
  
  , 1161 x 1162-1164
• Simon, 1166 x 1174-1195 x 1196
• Robert, 1195 x 1196-1222
• Thomas, 1222
• Thomas de Contravel, 1222-1227
• Hugh de Potton, 1227-1238
• Matthew de Aberdeen, 1238 x 1244
• Reginald de Irvine, 1245-1266 x 1268
• William de Lindsay, 1275
• James de Dalileye 1306-1308 x 1311
• John Wishart
  John Wishart (bishop)
  John Wishart was a 14th century bishop of Glasgow. He was archdeacon of Glasgow from 1321 or earlier. After the death of Bishop John de Lindesay in 1335, John was elected to succeed him at Glasgow, and was consecrated in February 1337 at the orders of Pope Benedict XII at Avignon by Annibald de...
  
  , x 1310-1337
• Guido Kieretti, 1342-1374
• Gregory de Maybole (?), 1367-1387
• Thomas Mercer, 1374 x 1377 -1379 x 1388
• Duncan Petit, 1388-1397
• John de Grangia, x 1394
• Henry de Wardlaw, x 1394-1403
• William MacMorrin, x 1403
• Simon de Mandeville, 1403-1409
  • William de Camera, 1403
  • John Forrester, 1403
• John Forrester, 1409-1414
  • William de Glendinning, 1409-1413
  • John Stewart, 1413-1414
• George de Borthwick, 1414-1446
• John Arous, 1447 x 1448-1468
• Archibald Whitelaw, 1468
• Hugh 'Danslas', 1468
• Gilbert Rerik, 1468-149
• John Gibson, 1495
• Patrick Blackadder, 1502 x 1505-1521 x 1524
• Alexander Dick, 1523 x 1538-1559x1560
• John Abercrombie, 1562
• Andrew Betoun, 1560-1563 x 1573
• Archibald Douglas, 1573-1610
• Theodore Hay, 1610-1638