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

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...

 was responsible for the Teviotdale region of the Scottish Borders

Scottish Borders

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

Parish church

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 in the archdeaconry.

List of archdeacons of Teviotdale

• Peter de Alinton 1238-1242
• Reginald de Irvine 1242-1245
• Nicholas de Moffat
  Nicholas de Moffat
  Nicholas de Moffat was a 13th century cleric who was twice bishop-elect of Glasgow. He had been archdeacon of Teviotdale, and was elected to the bishopric of Glasgow on the first occasion in early 1259...
  
  , 1245-1270
• William Wishart, 1288-1297 x 1308
• Roger de Welleton, 1307-1310
• William de Hillum, 1312
• William de Yetholm 1320 x 1321-1329
• John de Berwick, x 1354
• John de Boulton, 1354
• Henry de Smalham, 1354-1358 x 1364
• John de Ancrum, 1364-1393
• Thomas de "Mathane", 1394
• John de Merton, 1394-1400 x 1404
• John Forrester, 1418
• William Croyser, 1418-1440 x 1443; 1446 x 1451-1460 x 1461
• John de Scheves, 1418-1419
• John Lyon, 1418-1418 x 1423
• Edward de Lauder, x 1419
• Alexander de Foulertoun, 1422 x 1424
• John Bowmaker, x 1424-1428
• Andrew de Hawick, 1424-1425
• John Benyng, 1426
• ?
• James Croyser, 1440
• Walter Blair, 1441-1447
• Patrick Hume, 1443-1472
• Alexander Inglis, 1471
• John Lichton, 1472
• David Luthirdale, 1474-1475
• John Whitelaw, 1475
• Nicholas Forman, 1478 x 1479
• James Doles, 1478
• John Brown, 1479
• William Elphinstone
  William Elphinstone
  William Elphinstone was a Scottish statesman, Bishop of Aberdeen and founder of the University of Aberdeen.He was born in Glasgow, and educated at the University of Glasgow, taking the degree of M.A. in 1452. After practising for a short time as a lawyer in the church courts, he was ordained a...
  
  junior, 1479-1481
• William Elphinstone senior, 1481 x 1482-1486
• John Martini, 1486 x 1491 (?),x 1510
• William Ker, 1491,1510-1511
• George'Berber', 1509
• George Lockhart, 1509 x 1520-1533
• Thomas Ker, x 1534
• John Lauder, 1534-1551
• John Hepburn, 1544-1564 x 1565
• Robert Richardson, 1552-1565
• Thomas Ker, 1565-1569