Archdeacon of Cheltenham

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The Archdeacon of Cheltenham is a senior cleric in the Diocese of Gloucester who is responsible for some pastoral care and discipline of clergy in the Cheltenham archdeaconry.

The archdeaconry was created as the Archdeaconry of Cirencester in the Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol on 8 December 1882 from parts of the Gloucester and Bristol archdeaconries. When Gloucester & Bristol diocese was re-divided in 1897, Cirencester archdeaconry remained part of the Gloucester diocese. On 1 August 1919, the archdeaconry's boundaries were altered and it was renamed the Archdeaconry of Cheltenham.

The archdeaconry consists of the deaneries of Cheltenham, Cirencester, North Cotswold, & Tewkesbury and Winchcombe.

The archdeaconry is presently vacant since the consecration of Robert Springett as Bishop of Tewkesbury.

List of archdeacons

Archdeaconry created as Archdeaconry of Cirencester in Gloucester & Bristol Diocese in 1882.

1883 – 1908: Henry Hayward

Archdeaconry allocated to the new Diocese of Gloucester when Gloucester & Bristol diocese divided in 1897.

1908 – 30 April 1919 (d.): John Sinclair

1919 – 1919 (res.): Reginald Waterfield (afterwards Dean of Hereford, 1919)

During Waterfield's tenure, the archdeaconry was reconfigured and renamed Cheltenham archdeaconry.

1920 – 1924 (res.): George Gardner

1924 – 9 June 1932 (d.): Alan Cornwall

1932–1943: Frederick Sears

1943 – 1951 (ret.): Edmund Murray

1951 – 1965 (ret.): Ronald Sutch (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)

1965 – 1976 (ret.): George Hutchins (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)

1975 – 1988 (res.): Eric Evans (afterwards Dean of St Paul's, 1988)

1988 – 1998 (ret.): John Lewis (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)

1998 – December 2009 (ret.): Hedley Ringrose

2010 – 30 November 2016 (res.): Robert Springett (became Bishop of Tewkesbury)

11 March 2017 onwards (announced): Phil Andrew (archdeacon-designate)

References

Archdeacon of Cheltenham Wikipedia

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