The Archdeacon of Llandaff is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff. The archdeacon is the senior priest with responsibility over the area of the archdeaconry of Llandaff, one of three archdeaconries in the diocese (the others are Margam and Morgannwg). The archdeaconry of Llandaff consists of three deaneries: Cardiff, Llandaff, & Penarth and Barry.
The first recorded archdeacons of Llandaff occur soon after the Norman Conquest. However, no territorial titles are recorded until after c. 1125. Until 1843, when the separate position of Dean of Llandaff was created, the Archdeacon also performed the duties of cathedral dean.
List of archdeacons of Llandaff
Leofric
1059-1104 Abraham
Urban I
1126 Uhtred
1140–1148 Urban II
c.1154–1159 Ralph
1165–1179 William
1172–1179 Urban III
1217–1242 Maurice
1243 Ralph of Newcastle
1244 Thomas, the king's chaplain
1260 Nicholas
1260–c1287 Simon of Radnor
1287 Robert de Briouze
1289 Henry de Cranborne or Wager
1290 Robert
1323,1337 Alexander de Monmouth
1338 Richard de Halton
1347 Thomas de Burgherssh
?–1361 John de Coventry
1361,1364 Henry Despenser
1361–1368 Robert de Walsham
1363–? Thomas Banastre of Eltisley
1366 Thomas de Southam
1368–? Richard Boule
?–1373 Thomas de Alston
1373–? John de Sulthorn
1385,1393 Robert de la More
1396–? Thomas Orewelle
?-1447 Robert Cole
1447–1454 John Stradling
1454–? Lewis Byford
1529,1541 John Quarre
?–1564 John Smith
1564–? Egidius Langley
166û–1667 Francis Davies (afterwards Bishop of Llandaff, 1667)
1668 Edward Gamage
Edward Gamage Jnr
Thomas Gamage
1686-1705 George Bull (afterwards Bishop of St David's, 1705)
1728 John Evans
1749–1777 John Fulham
1777–1789 William Adams
1789–? John Porter
c.1796–1843 John Probyn (also Dean of Llandaff)
1843–1857 Thomas Williams (afterwards Dean of Llandaff, 1857)
1857–1859 James Colquhoun Campbell (afterwards Bishop of Bangor, 1859)
1859–?1877 Henry Lynch Blosse
1877-1897 John Griffiths
1897–1913 Frederic Edmondes
1913–1924 James Buckley
1924–1930 David Davies
1930–1938 John James
1938–1953 Richard Jones
1953–1964 Gwynno James (afterwards Dean of Llandaff, 1964)
1965–1969 Thomas Hughes (bishop)
1969–1971 John Williams
1971–1977 Alun Davies (afterwards Dean of Llandaff, 1977)
1977–1988 Lewis Clarke
1988–1991 Albert Lewis
1991–1997 (ret.) David Lee
1998–2008 (ret.) Bill Thomas
2009–present Peggy Jackson
