Archdeacon of Lichfield
The Archdeacon of Lichfield is a senior cleric in the Diocese of Lichfield who is responsible for pastoral care and discipline of clergy in the Lichfield archdeaconry.
The archdeaconry was erected – as the Archdeaconry of Stafford – in the ancient Diocese of Coventry before 1135, around the time when archdeacons were first being appointed across England. On 24 July 1877, the archdeaconry of Stoke-upon-Trent was created from the northern part of the Stafford archdeaconry. After the deanery of Stafford was transferred on 26 September 1979 to the Stoke archdeaconry, Stafford archdeaconry was renamed the archdeaconry of Lichfield on 25 April 1980. The archdeaconry is vacant.
List of archdeacons
High Medieval
- 1135–1145: Robert
- bef. –aft. : William
- bef. –aft. : Helias
- bef. 1175–aft. 1175: Ralph de Thamewood
- 1175–1182: Alan
- bef. 1191–aft. 1191: Henry Marshal
- bef. 1191–aft. 1191: Alexander
- bef. 1194–1213 : Henry de Loundres
- bef. –aft. : Helyas
- 5 March 1213 – 1222 : Robert of Gloucester
- bef. 1238–aft. 1224: William of York
- bef. 1234–aft. 1234: R. de Langdon
- bef. 1244–aft. 1244: Robert of Stafford
- bef. 1259–aft. 1259: Richard de Mepham
- bef. 1265–1275 : Thomas de Cantilupe
- bef. –aft. : Adam Paine
- ?–bef. 1301 : Rayner de Vichio/Florence
Late Medieval
- 6 June 1301 – 19 January 1322 : John de Brunforte, son of Octavian
- 8 December 1321 – 20 August 1323 : Robert de Patrika
- 20 August 1323–June 1336 : John Clarel
- ?–bef. 1349 : William de Apeltre
- 26 June 1349–bef. 1349 : Roger de Depyng
- 27 August 1349 – 4 June 1353 : Richard de Birmingham
- 1349–bef. 1355 : Roger de Dorkyng
- 4 June 1353 – 14 May 1356 : John de Marisco
- 14 May 1356–bef. 1358 : William de Grenburgh
- 16 October 1358–bef. 1374 : John de Sulgrave
- 29 March 1374 – 1381 : John de Outheby
- 28 December 1381–bef. 1400 : Richard de Toppeclyve
- 1 September 1400–aft. 1413: Henry Davyd
- bef. 1415–aft. 1415: John Fyton
- bef. 1418–1418 : Thomas Barton
- 13 July 1418–bef. 1422 : John Fyton
- 1 March 1422–bef. 1432 : William de Admondeston
- 4 July 1432–bef. 1442 : Ralph Prestbury
- bef. 1442–bef. June 1442 : Roger Wall
- 29 June 1442 – 1459 : John Wendesley, illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Wensley of Wensley in Derbyshire, five times a Member of Parliament for Derbyshire.
- 27 May 1459–bef. 1467 : Thomas Hawkins
- 6 December 1467–March 1497 : William Moggys
- 30 March 1497–aft. 1497: William Duffield
- bef. 1501–30 June 1501 : Edward Willughby
- 30 June 1501–July 1515 : John Wardroper
- 20 July 1515–bef. 1529: Adam Grafton
- bef. 1530–1530 : Geoffrey Blythe
- 3 October 1530–aft. 1530: John Blythe
- bef. 1536–1540 : Nicholas Heath
- 13 November 1540–bef. 1547 : John Redman
Early modern
- bef. 1547–?: John Dakyn
- 5 August 1547–September 1567 : Richard Walker
- 12 May 1567 – 1586 : Thomas Bickley
- 2 February 1586 – 12 October 1614 : Humphrey Tyndall
- 1613–bef. 1636 : John Fulnetby
- 27 December 1636–bef. 1660 : Martin Tinley
- 6 December 1660 – 4 May 1682 : Francis Coke
- 14 July 1682 – 4 May 1721 : Nathaniel Ellison
- 3 May 1721–bef. 1732 : Thomas Allen
- 30 June 1732–bef. 1763 : James Brooks
- 3 February 1763 – 1769 : Edmund Law
- 15 March 1769 – 8 May 1782 : John Carver
- 23 May 1782 – 24 April 1801 : William Brereton
- 28 April 1801 – 23 March 1829 : Robert Nares
- 9 May 1829 – 13 August 1855 : George Hodson
- December 1855–18 July 1876 : Henry Moore
Late modern
- 1876–bef. 1888: John Iles
- 1888–3 June 1898 : Melville Scott
- 1898–1910 : Robert Hodgson
- 1911–7 June 1922 : Charles Blakeway
- 1922–1933 : Hugh Bright
- 1935–1944 : Robert Hodson
- 1945–1959 : William Parker
- 1959–1974 : Basil Stratton
- 1974–1980: Richard Ninis
- 1980–1998 : Richard Ninis
- 1998–2000 : George Frost
- 3 March 2001 – 5 May 2013 : Chris Liley
- 18 July 201331 May 2019 : Simon Baker
- September 2019 onwards: Sue Weller