Archdeacon of Totnes

The Archdeacon of Totnes or Totton is the senior ecclesiastical officer in charge of one of the oldest archdeaconries in England. It is an administrative division of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter and under the oversight of the Bishop suffragan of Plymouth.

History

The first recorded archdeacon of Exeter occurs in 1083, around the time when archdeacons were first appointed in Britain. Around that time, the Diocese of Exeter was divided into four archdeaconries: Exeter, Cornwall, Totnes (or Totton) and Barnstaple (or Barum). This configuration of archdeaconries within the diocese remained for almost 800 years, until the creation of the independent Diocese of Truro from the Cornwall archdeaconry.[1] On 22 March 1918, the archdeaconries were reconfigured and the Archdeaconry of Plymouth created from Totnes archdeaconry.[2] Presently, the diocese operates an informal 'area scheme' such that responsibility for roughly half the diocese is delegated to each suffragan bishop: 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.[3]

The archdeacon oversees the deaneries of Moreton, Newton Abbot and Ipplepen, Okehampton, Torbay, Totnes and Woodleigh, in Devon, southwest England.

List of archdeacons

High Medieval

Late Medieval

  • bef. 1302–aft. 1302: Thomas de Charlton
  • bef. 1303–1307 (d.): William de Puntyngdon
  • bef. 1307–1338 (d.): Roger de Charlton
  • Period of dispute:
    • Northwode et al.:
      • 13 June 1338–1349 (d.): John de Northwode (disputed with Piers)
      • 1349–20 June 1359 (exch.): Peter de Gildesburgh (disputed with Swinnerton)
      • 20 June 1359–18 May 1371 (exch.): William Steele (disputed with Drax)
      • 18 May 1371–7 May 1385 (exch.): Hugh de Bridham
    • Piers et al.:
      • 1342–1344 (d.): John Piers (disputed with Northwode)
      • 1357–?: Richard de Swinnerton (disputed with Gildesburgh)
      • 1359–1361 (d.): Richard de Drax (disputed with Steele)
      • 1372: Richard Desbunton (disputed with Bridham)
  • 1385–1407 (d.): John Lydford
  • 21 January 1408–29 May 1415 (exch.): William Hunden
  • 29 May 1415–1421 (d.): William Barton
  • 3 November 1421–16 July 1433 (exch.): John Typhane
  • 16 July 1433–1443 (d.): Alan Kirketon
  • 16 August 1443–1453 (res.): John Burneby
  • 4 June 1453–bef. 1469: Thomas Manning
  • bef. 1469–1478 (d.): Thomas Chippenham
  • 15 February–October 1478 (d.): Owen Lord

Early modern

Late modern

On 22 March 1918, the Archdeaconry of Plymouth was erected from Totnes archdeaconry.

References

  1. The London Gazette: no. 24394. p. 6933. 15 December 1876. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  2. The London Gazette: no. 30591. pp. 3624–3625. 22 March 1918. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  3. Diocese of Exeter – Vacancy in the Suffragan See of Crediton
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