This is a list of 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...

s of the diocese of Exeter

Diocese of Exeter

The Diocese of Exeter is a Church of England diocese covering the county of Devon. It is one of the largest dioceses in England. The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter is the seat of the diocesan bishop, the Right Reverend Michael Langrish, Bishop of Exeter. It is part of the Province of...

in England. The modern diocese is divided into four archdeaconries. Special oversight is given to the Bishop of Crediton for the Barnstaple and Exeter archdeaconries, and to the Bishop of Plymouth for the Plymouth and Totnes archdeaconries. Until 1876 the diocese included also the Archdeaconry of Cornwall.

High medieval

• 1103–11 August 1107: William Warelwast
  William Warelwast
  William Warelwast, sometimes known as William de Warelwast was a medieval Norman cleric and Bishop of Exeter in England. Warelwast was a native of Normandy, but little is known about his background before 1087, when he appears as a royal clerk for King William II of England...
  
  
• 1107–18 December 1138: Robert Warelwast
  Robert Warelwast
  -Life:Warelwast and his successor, Robert of Chichester are often confused. Warelwast was the nephew of the previous bishop, William Warelwast, and was appointed archdeacon of Exeter by his uncle. He had been educated at Laon, sent there by his uncle to study under Master Anselm of Laon.Warelwast...
  
  
• 1155–1161: Bartholomew Iscanus
  Bartholomew Iscanus
  Bartholomew Iscanus was a medieval Bishop of Exeter.-Early life:Bartholomew was a native of Normandy, and was probably born in Millières, a village in the Cotentin near Lessay and Périers. He was a clerk of Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury before becoming Archdeacon of Exeter in 1155...
  
  
• Henry Fitz Robert
• ?–1282: John of Pontoise
  John of Pontoise
  -Life:John was from Pontoise in Seine-et-Oise in France. He was an Archdeacon of Exeter and a papal chaplain before Pope Martin IV provided him to the see of Winchester on 9 June 1282 and consecrated before 15 June 1282. He was enthroned at Winchester Cathedral in September 1282.John died on 5...
  
  

Late medieval

–1311: Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio

• 1308: Richard de Plumstok
• 20 June 1311–1312: William FitzRogo
• 5 March 1312–1317: John Wele
• 16 August 1317–2 February 1318: Richard de Coleton
• 2 February 1318–1318: Richard de Morcester
• 11 June 1318–1329: Thomas de Hereward
• 29 November 1329–1330: John de Northwode
• 18 April–5 June 1330: William de Grandisson
• 12 July 1330–1331: William Zouche
  William Zouche
  William Zouche or William de la Zouche, was a medieval Archbishop of York.Zouche was a younger son of William, Lord Zouche of Haringworth, in Northamptonshire. He was appointed Archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1329. On 12 July 1330, he was collated Archdeacon of Exeter...
  
  
• June 1331–1345: Thomas de Nassington
• 15 December 1345–1360: Otto de Northwode (in commendam 1349 onwards)
• 16 November–27 December 1360: Philip de Beauchamp
• 27 December 1360–?: Stephen de Pempel
• ?–1371: Philip de Beauchamp (again)
• 1371–1 March 1375: Thomas de Swaby
• 1371–1378: Peter de Vernhio
• 10 July 1379–: John Cheyne–16 August 1397: Philip d'Alencon
• 1397–: William Waltham
• 1399: Nicholas Bubwith
  Nicholas Bubwith
  Nicholas Bubwith was a Bishop of London, Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Bath and Wells as well as Lord Privy Seal and Lord High Treasurer.Bubwith was Lord Privy Seal from 2 March 1405 to 4 October 1406...
  
  
• 21 October 1399–1403: Walter Cook
• 1403–31 May 1408: Angelo Acciaiuoli
• 7 December 1408–28 February 1410: William Pilton–14 July 1410: Anthony de Calvis
• 28 February 1410–January 1417: Thomas Hendeman
• 25 January–May 1417: Roger Bolter
• 21 September 1417–1425: John Schute
• 1418: Thomas Redman
• 27 September 1425–1438: James Carslegh
• 5 December 1438–1444: Peter Stukeley
• 21 March 1444–1453: John Druell
• 8 June 1453–7 January 1475: Peter Courtenay
  Peter Courtenay
  Peter Courtenay was an English prelate. Peter was born to Sir Philip Courtenay of Powderham by Elizabeth Hungerford.Courtenay was a grandnephew of Richard Courtenay....
  
  
• 7 January 1475–23 October 1482: Robert Aiscough–1492: David Hopton
• 3 February 1492–1493: Richard Nykke
  Richard Nykke
  Richard Nykke was bishop of Norwich, the last Roman Catholic to hold the post before the Henrician reform. Described as "ultra-conservative", but also "much-respected", he maintained an independent line and was embroiled in conflict until blind and in his last years...
  
  
• 1493–November 1504: Hugh Oldham
  Hugh Oldham
  Hugh Oldham was a Bishop of Exeter and a notable patron of education. Born in Lancashire to a family of minor gentry, he probably attended both Oxford and Cambridge universities, following which he was a clerk at Durham, then a rector in Cornwall before being employed by Lady Margaret Beaufort ,...
  
  

Early modern

• 13 January 1505–1515: Richard More
• 19 June 1515–: John Fulford
• 19 January 1519–27 December 1555: Adam Travesse
• 1551: Rowland Taylor
  Rowland Taylor
  Rowland Taylor was an English Protestant martyr during the Marian Persecutions....
  
  
• 30 January 1556–1569: George Carew
• 20 October 1569–1583: Robert Fisher
• 14 January 1583–25 November 1633: Thomas Barrett
• 16 January 1634–1643: Aaron Wilson
• 21 September 1643–1662: Edward Young
• 18 August 1662–1664: Robert Cary
• 4 February 1664–28 March 1668: Daniel Estcott
• 28 March 1668–September 1676: Anthony Sparrow
  Anthony Sparrow
  Anthony Sparrow was an English Anglican priest. He was Bishop of Norwich and Bishop of Exeter.-Life:He was educated and became a fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge, and was ordained a priest in February 1635. He was an adherent to the Laudianism movement...
  
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  Bishop of Exeter
  The Bishop of Exeter is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. The incumbent usually signs his name as Exon or incorporates this in his signature....
  
  
• 24 October 1676–1 February 1704: Edward Lake
• 1 April 1704–1707: Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop of Exeter
• 7 February 1708–29 November 1716: Ofspring Blackall
  Ofspring Blackall
  Ofspring Blackall , Bishop of Exeter and religious controversialist, was born in London.-Early life and education:Baptized on 26 April 1655 at St Gregory by Paul's, the son of Thomas Blackall , freeman of the Haberdashers' Company and later alderman of the City of London, and his wife, Martha...
  
  , Bishop of Exeter
• 1 March 1717–21 October 1726: Edward Trelawney
• 11 November 1726–1732: Richard Ibbetson
• 26 January 1732 onward: successive Bishops of Exeter held the archdeaconry for this period

Late modern

• until 1820: successive Bishops of Exeter held the archdeaconry for this period
• 29 December 1820–after 1850: John Moore (later Stevens)
• 1865–?: Philip Freeman
  Philip Freeman
  Philip Freeman was a Church of England clergyman and archdeacon of Exeter.-Life:Freeman, son of Edmund Freeman, of the Cedars, Combs, Suffolk, by Margaret, daughter of William Hughes of Wexford, Ireland, was born at the Cedars, Combs, Suffolk, 3 February 1818, and educated at Dedham Grammar School...
  
  
• 1888–1909: Ernest Sandford
• 1909–1924: Frederick Sanders
• 1925–1930: William Surtees
  William Surtees
  The Rt Rev William Frederick Surtees was an Anglican bishop, the second Suffragan Bishop of Crediton from 1930 to 1954.William Surtees was educated at Bedford School and King's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1900, he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Lythe...
  
  
• ?–1954: Wilfrid Westall
• ?–?: Richard Babington
• 2003–2005: Paul Gardner
• 2006–2012: Penny Driver

Sources

• British History – Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae, 1300–1541 – Archdeacons of Exeter
• Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae, pp. 434–9