Archdeacon of Hampstead
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The Archdeacon of Hampstead is an archdiaconal
post in the Church of England
Diocese of London
, named after, and based in and around, the Hampstead
area of London
. He or she is the priest responsible for the Archdeaconry of Hampstead, which is geographically equivalent to the episcopal area overseen by the suffragan Bishop of Edmonton
. The archdeaconry was created from the archdeaconry of Middlesex.
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...
post in the Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
Diocese of London
Diocese of London
The Anglican Diocese of London forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England.Historically the diocese covered a large area north of the Thames and bordered the dioceses of Norwich and Lincoln to the north and west. The present diocese covers and 17 London boroughs, covering most of Greater...
, named after, and based in and around, the Hampstead
Hampstead
Hampstead is an area of London, England, north-west of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Camden in Inner London, it is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical and literary associations and for Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland...
area of London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. He or she is the priest responsible for the Archdeaconry of Hampstead, which is geographically equivalent to the episcopal area overseen by the suffragan Bishop of Edmonton
Bishop of Edmonton (London)
The Bishop of Edmonton is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury, England...
. The archdeaconry was created from the archdeaconry of Middlesex.
List of archdeacons
- 1912–1962: Unknown men
- 1962–1964: Graham LeonardGraham LeonardGraham Douglas Leonard KCVO was a British priest. His principal ministry was as a bishop of the Church of England but, after his retirement as the Bishop of London, he became a Roman Catholic, becoming the most senior Anglican cleric to do so since the English Reformation...
- 1964–1974: Hubert Pink
- 1995–1999: Peter WheatleyPeter WheatleyPeter Wheatley is the current Bishop of Edmonton in the Diocese of London.-Life:Educated at Ipswich School, The Queen's College, Oxford, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, Wheatley trained for ordination at the College of the Resurrection and Ripon Hall, Oxford and was ordained in 1973.Wheatley...
- 1999–2010: Michael Lawson
- 24 January 2011–present: Luke Miller