List of Archdeacons of Rochester
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This is a list of the archdeacon
s of Rochester, a post in the diocese of Rochester
, England.
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 Rochester, a post in the diocese of Rochester
Diocese of Rochester
The Diocese of Rochester is a Church of England diocese in South-East England and forms part of the Province of Canterbury. It is an ancient diocese, having been established in 604; only the neighbouring Diocese of Canterbury is older in the Church of England....
, England.
- Robert PullenRobert PullenRobert Pullen was an English theologian and official of the Roman Catholic Church.-Biography:Nothing is known of his early life except that he was of English parentage. The conjecture of an early-20th-century biographer that he was born at Poole, Dorsetshire is not supported by any evidence....
- ?-1489 Henry Sharp
- ?-1512 Henry Edyall
- 1512-1537 Nicholas MetcalfeNicholas Metcalfe-Life:He graduated B.A., possibly from Michaelhouse, Cambridge, in 1494/5, became M.A. in 1498, B.D. in 1503/4 and D.D. in 1506/7. He was Archdeacon of Rochester from 1512. He was also prebendary of Lincoln, and rector of Woodham Ferrers....
- 1537-1554 Maurice GriffithMaurice GriffithMaurice Griffith was a Welshman who became Bishop of Rochester.Little is known of his birth but it is thought to have been in the Caernarfon area around 1507. He was a friar at Blackfriars, Oxford and in 1535 was appointed by John Hilsey, then Bishop of Rochester, to be his Vicar-General...
- 1554-1560 John KennallJohn KennallDr John Kennall, LL.D. was Archdeacon of Oxford and a noted pluralist.Canon of 8th preb., Christ Church, Oxford, from 1559–1592, Archdeacon of Oxford, Oxford, from 1561-1592, Canon of 6th preb., Rochester, from 1556–1559, and Archdeacon of Rochester, 1554–1560...
- 1560-1571 John Bridgewater
- 1571-1576 John Calverley
- 1576-1593 Ralph Pickover
- 1593-1606 Thomas Staller
- 1606-1614 Thomas Sanderson
- 1614-1624 Richard TillesleyRichard TillesleyRichard Tillesley was an English churchman, known for his book defending tithes.-Life:Born at Coventry, he was the son of Thomas Tillesley of Eccleshall in Staffordshire, by his wife, the daughter of Richard Barker of Shropshire. Matriculating at Balliol College, Oxford, on 20 January 1598,...
- 1625-1652 Elizeus Burgess
- 1660-1679 John Lee
- 1679-1704 Thomas PlumeThomas PlumeThe Reverend Doctor Thomas Plume, B.A., D.D. was an English churchman and philanthropist, founder of a school which still stands today, the Plume School, in Maldon, Essex.-Family life:...
- 1704-1720 Thomas Sprat
- 1720-1728 Henry Bridges
- 1728 William Bradford
- 1728-1767 John Denne
- 1767-1827 John Law
- 1827-1859 Walker King
- 1969-1976 David Cree Stewart-Smith
- 1984-1988Michael TurnbullMichael TurnbullAnthony Michael Arnold Turnbull was the Bishop of Durham in the Church of England from 1994 until 2003.Turnbull was born in Wombwell, South Yorkshire. He was a student at Keble College, Oxford, graduating in 1958. He prepared for ordained ministry at Cranmer Hall and St John's College, University...
- 1989-2000 Norman Warren
- 2001-2009 Peter Lock
- 24 January 2010-present Simon Burton-Jones