Archdeacon of Chester
The Archdeacon of Chester is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the diocese of Chester. The area in which she, or he, has statutory duties is the Archdeaconry of Chester – those duties include some pastoral care and disciplinary supervision of the clergy in that area.
The archdeaconry was created before 1135 in the Diocese of Coventry ; it formed part of the Diocese of Chester upon her creation in 1541 and remains so today.
List of archdeacons
High Medieval
- Halmar
- William
- Robert '
- bef. 1135–aft. 1135: Richard Peche
- Adam de Stafford
- –1149: William de Villars
- 1149–1152: Robert '
- Hugh
- Thomas de Sancto Nicholao
- bef. 1222–aft. 1231: Ralph de Maidstone
- bef. 1245–1246 : Silvester de Everdon
- bef. 1248–aft. 1248: Richard
- bef. 1253–aft. 1253: John Basing
- Simon de Albo Monasterio, Abbot of St Werburgh's Abbey
- bef. 1271–aft. 1271: Adam de Stanford or Stafford
- bef. 1279–aft. 1284: Jordan of Wimborne/de Wimburn
- bef. 1289–1315 : Robert de Radewell
Late Medieval
- bef. 1315–bef. 1341 : Richard de Havering
- 26 April–10 December 1330: John de Ufford
- 29 January 1341–aft. August 1342 : Michael Northburgh
- August 1342–14 July 1348 : Pedro Cardinal Gòmez de Barroso
- 30 October 1348–bef. 1385 : William de Navesby
- 16 October 1385 – 11 March 1387 : Nicholas Slake
- 11 March 1387–bef. 1390 : John de Herlaston
- 22 February 1388–?: John Ganville
- 10 July 1390 – 15 May 1413 : William de Neuhagh
- 15 May 1413–bef. 1423 : Henry de Halsall
- 7 March 1423–bef. 1425 : David Price
- 5 July 1425–bef. 1433 : Richard Stanley
- 6 March 1433–bef. 1449 : John Burdet
- 26 April 1449–bef. 1454 : George Radclyf
- 19 January 1454–bef. 1462 : Sir Edward Stanley
- 5 November 1462–bef. 1467 : Thomas St Just
- 10 October 1467–bef. 1474 : Henry Ince
- 9 May 1474 – 1478 : John Morton
- bef. 1478–bef. 1485 : James Stanley
- 5 June 1485–bef. 1493 : Christopher Talbot
- 11 February 1493 – 1499 : Edmund Chaderton, Archdeacon of Salisbury
- 28 August 1499 – 1519 : John Vesey
- 17 November 1519 – 1522 : Cuthbert Tunstall
- 11 November 1522 – 20 May 1541 : William Knight
Early modern
- 5 August 1541 – 1554 : John Birde, Bishop of Chester
- bef. 1559–1559 : Robert Perceval/Percival
- aft. 1559–aft. 1562: Robert Perceval/Percival
- bef. 1566–bef. 1595 : Robert Rogers
- 3 January 1596–bef. 1619 : Cuthbert Bellott
- 16 January 1619 – 5 February 1656 : George Snell
- 19 October 1660–bef. 1667 : John Carter
- 6 November 1666 – 7 April 1686 : William Finmore
- 12 April 1686 – 17 April 1695 : John Allen
- 30 April 1695 – 15 September 1707 : Edmund Entwisle
- February 1708–30 June 1727 : John Thane
- 12 September 1727 – 2 February 1747 : Lewis Stephens
- 22 April 1747 – 13 April 1751 : William Powell
- 20 April 1751 – 1 October 1785 : Abel Ward
- 21 January–20 November 1786 : George Taylor
- 27 November 1786 – 24 February 1797 : George Travis
- 11 March 1797 – 29 December 1800 : Thomas Breithweite
- 17 January 1801–bef. 1847 : Unwin Clarke
- 23 February 1847 – 7 June 1865 : Isaac Wood
- July 1865 - 29 August 1866 : Edward Woolnough
Late modern
- September 18661867 : Richard Greenall
- 1867–1871 : William Pollock
- 1871–1876 : Edward Johnson
- 1877–1886 : John Darby
- 1886–23 July 1914 : Edward Barber
- 1914–14 March 1934 : Paige Cox
- 1934–1937 : Norman Tubbs, Assistant Bishop
- 1937–1965 : Richard Burne
- 1965–1975 : Leslie Fisher
- 1975–1988 : Leslie Williams
- 1988–1993 : Michael Gear
- 1993–1994 : Geoffrey Turner
- 1994–2002 : Christopher Hewetson
- 2002–2010 : Donald Allister
- September 2010–present: Michael Gilbertson