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3 unusual facts about archdeacon


José Mariano Beristain

Returning to Mexico (1811) he was made Archdeacon of the Metropolitan church of Mexico (1813), and was afterwards its Dean.

Pageant wagon

This follows along with a description from the memory of an Archdeacon Robert Rogers who, in 1595, is quoted as saying

Sidney Swann

Swann moved to Nairobi as Archdeacon in 1926-27, to Egypt in the same position in 1928, and returned to England in 1933, where he became vicar of Leighton Buzzard.


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Walter of the Mill, archdeacon of Cefalù, dean of Agrigento and archbishop of Palermo

Anastasius Germonius

As archdeacon at Turin he was a member of the commission appointed by Pope Clement VIII to edit the Liber Septimus decretalium (later known as the Constitutiones Clementinae); and he also wrote Paratitla on the five books of the Decretals of Gregory IX.

Anne of France

She makes a fleeting appearance in Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris: we are told that in December 1481, the Archdeacon of Josas, Claude Frollo, unsuccessfully attempts to block her visit to the cathedral cloister because she is a woman, then refuses to attend on her visit.

Archdeacon of Chichester

The post of Archdeacon of Chichester was created in the 12th century, although the Diocese of Sussex was founded by St Wilfrid, the exiled Bishop of York, in AD 681.

Archdeacon of Gloucester

The present Archdeacon of Gloucester is the Venerable Jackie Searle, formerly Vicar of Littleover in the Diocese of Derby; she is the first woman to hold the post, and was installed in Gloucester Cathedral on 12 September 2012.

Archdeacon of Hampstead

The Archdeacon of Hampstead is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of London, named after, and based in and around, the Hampstead area of London.

Babai the Great

Two vekils (regents) were selected as a stop-gap measure: Archdeacon Mar Aba, who handled matters in the north.

Bernard Saisset

The king charged two northerners, Richard Leneveu, archdeacon of Auge in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lisieux, and Jean de Picquigni, vidame of Amiens, to make an investigation, which lasted several months.

Charles Hardwick

In 1859 he became archdeacon of Ely, and commenced B.D. On 18 August of that year he was killed by falling over a precipice in the Pyrenees.

Charles Thorp

He was born in Gateshead, Durham, the son of Robert Thorp, Archdeacon of Northumberland and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and Durham School.

Diocesan Synod

The House of Clergy consists of clergy representatives chosen by the clergy in each Deanery Synod, together with a number of ex officio members -- any other assistant bishops working in the diocese; the dean of the cathedral; the archdeacons of the diocese; the clergy elected to the General Synod for the diocese (known as Proctors to the Lower House of Convocation), and some others.

Diocese in Europe

The current (2008) archdeacon is the Venerable Ian Naylor who is based in Pau and has served since 2013.

Erluin

Erluin studied in the famous school of Liège, where he became archdeacon under Bishop Notker (972–1008), who procured his election to the bishopric of Cambrai.

Eustache Chartier de Lotbinière

He was ordained into the Priesthood (Catholic Church) in 1726, and only four days after this event the Bishop of Quebec appointed him Canon (priest) and Archdeacon, which was followed a few months later to his appointment as Vicar general to the Bishop.

Ferrand Martinez

Ferrand Martinez (fl. 14th century) was a Spanish cleric and archdeacon of Écija most noted for being an antisemitic agitator whom historians cite as the prime mover behind the series of pogroms against the Spanish Jews in 1391 beginning in the city of Seville.

Francis Hindes Groome

Francis Hindes Groome (30 August 1851 in Monk Soham, Suffolk - 24 January 1902 in London), miscellaneous writer, son of Robert Hindes Groome Archdeacon of Suffolk, wrote for various encyclopaedias, etc.

Gavin Collins

On 11 September 2011, Collins was collated as the second Archdeacon of The Meon at Portsmouth Cathedral.

Harold Bennett

Bennett also played the role of the aged Archdeacon Pulteney in The Stalls of Barchester, the 1971 BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas broadcast 24 December 1971 and adapted from the M.R. James story of the same name.

Henry Francis Cary

His grandfather, Henry Cary was archdeacon, and his great grandfather, Mordecai Cary, bishop of that diocese.

Hildebert

He was probably a pupil of Berengar of Tours, and became master (scholasticus) of the school at Le Mans; in 1091 he was made archdeacon and in 1096 bishop of Le Mans.

Inskip, Lancashire

It was built in 1848 and was financed by the Earl of Derby and Archdeacon Hornby.

John Bargrave

Immediately after this promotion he departed with Archdeacon Selleck on the dangerous errand of ransoming English captives at Algiers, for whose redemption ten thousand pounds had been subscribed by the bishops and clergy.

John Heysham

He was close to the Carlisle Cathedral chapter, and was thought to have assisted Archdeacon William Paley on questions of design in nature.

John of Coutances

He also was dean of Rouen, and retained the treasurership of Lisieux while archdeacon.

John of Segovia

Nothing is known of him before he took part in the Council of Basle, except that he was archdeacon at Villaviciosa, canon at Toledo, and professor of theology at the University of Salamanca.

John Plunkett

Plunkett's remains were taken to Sydney and buried in the old Devonshire Street cemetery, beside those of Archpriest John Joseph Therry and Archdeacon McEncroe.

John Pryce

He was appointed a canon of Bangor Cathedral in 1884 and archdeacon in 1887, before being appointed Dean of Bangor Cathedral in 1902, succeeding Evan Lewis.

John Ruston

In 1976 Ruston took up an appointment as Archdeacon of Bloemfontein and as an examining chaplain to the Bishop of Bloemfontein and warden and chaplain of St Michael’s School, Bloemfontein.

Leo of Vercelli

Born in Hildesheim, he was made an archdeacon by 998 and was appointed to the see of Vercelli as the candidate of the Emperor Otto III and Pope Sylvester II following the assassination of Bishop Peter.

Michael Everitt

From 1998 to 2002 he was Chaplain at St Martin's College, Lancaster then Rector of Standish until his Archdeacon’s appointment.

Octavius Hadfield

Octavius Hadfield (born 6 October 1814 at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom - died 11 December 1904 at Edale, near Marton, Manawatu, New Zealand) was Archdeacon of Kapiti, Bishop of Wellington from 1870 to 1893 and Primate of New Zealand from 1890 to 1893.

Osbert de Bayeux

This document lists him as "Osbert archdeacon", which means that he probably held the archdeaconry of Richmond.

Percy Robert Diggle

Percy Robert Diggle was born on 27 November 1887, the son of the Venerable Archdeacon, the Right Reverend John William Diggle, who would later become the Bishop of Carlisle and his second wife Edith Moss, (the daughter of Gilbert Winter Moss and Eliza Seilliere Zwilchenbart whom he married on 23 April 1884).

Poughley Priory

Pope Alexander in 1182 granted to the newly founded house entire exemption from tithes, and further ordered by his apostolic authority both the bishop of Salisbury and the archdeacon of Berkshire and their officials not to impose any new charges of any kind on the priory.

Primicerius

In the regulation of the common life of the clergy in collegiate and cathedral churches, according to the Rule of Chrodegang and the statutes of Amalarius of Metz, the primicerius appears as the first capitular after the archdeacon and archpresbyter, controlling the lower clerics and directing the liturgical functions and chant.

Rogation days

The then Archdeacon of Essex, Grindal of London, beseeched the church to explicitly label the tradition as a perambulation, so as to further distance itself from the Catholic liturgy.

Shannon Mallory

Following ordination, Mallory served in Damaraland, first as Rector of Tsumeb, until 1962, and subsequently as Director of the Ovamboland Mission, also in South West Africa (Namibia), from 1963 to 1969, serving as Archdeacon of Ovamboland from 1964.

Silvester Jenks

Upon his return to England, he laboured as a missionary in or near London and was appointed Archdeacon of Surrey and Kent.

Sir Francis Heathcote, 9th Baronet

He was appointed Archdeacon of Vancouver in 1913 and later succeeded the Reverend Adam de Pencier as Bishop of New Westminster of the Anglican Church of Canada, located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, in 1940.

Thomas Lambe

From 1629-1639 he was frequently in trouble with the Archdeacon’s Court in Colchester for preaching outside of the bounds of the Church of England during the time that the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud was seeking to impose uniformity upon the churches in England.

Thomas Tudor

Thomas and John Tudor's help together with their father's assistance in creating sketches and diagrams for his book Historical Tour in Monmouthshire was acknowledged by Archdeacon William Coxe.

Vaujours

Around the year 1100, the land belonged to Étienne de Senlis, archdeacon of Notre Dame de Paris who gave it in turn as one of many generous gifts of the time to the Abbey of St Victor, Paris.

William Nicolson

After visiting Leipzig to learn German he was ordained as a deacon in 1679 and made Vicar of Torpenhow in 1681.He was also made prebendary of Carlisle Cathedral in 1681, and Archdeacon in 1682.


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