Archdeacon of Barnstaple
The Archdeaconry of Barnstaple or Barum is one of the oldest archdeaconries in England. It is an administrative division of the Diocese of Exeter in the Church of England.
History
The Diocese of Exeter was divided into four archdeaconries in Norman times, probably during the bishopric of Osbern FitzOsbern :- Exeter
- Barnstaple
- Totnes
- Cornwall
The archdeaconry currently comprises the following deaneries:
- Deanery of Barnstaple
- Deanery of Hartland
- Deanery of Holsworthy
- Deanery of Shirwell
- Deanery of South Molton
- Deanery of Torrington
List of archdeacons
High Medieval
- Allured '
- ?–1143: Ralph '
- : William de Auco
- bef. –aft. : Roger
- bef. 1203–?: Thomas
- 30 September 1209–?: Ralph de Werewell
- John
- bef. –?: Ralph
- ?–8 February 1227 : Isaac
- Walter de Pembroke
- 21 January 1263 – 1264: Henry de Bracton
- 25 May 1264–?: Richard Blund
- May 1267–?: John de Bradleigh
- January 1271–?: Thomas de Hertford
- 28 August 1279–?: Philip of Exon
Late Medieval
- ?–1308: Ralph Germeyn
- 13 October 1308 – 1309: William Melton
- 4 January 1309 – 1309: William Fitsrogo
- 30 March 1309 – 1312: John Wele
- ? : Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio
- 26 March 1312 – 3 December 1314 : Walter Giffard
- 7 February 1315 – 1318 : Richard de Morcester
- 22 September 1318 – 1329: Richard de Wideslade
- 10/15 December 1329 – 1330: William Zouche
- 17 December 1330 – 1349: John de Nassington
- 8 April 1350 – 1351: John de Reynham
- : Hugh de Monyton
- 23 February 1355 – 2 September 1358: John de Derby
- 2 September 1358–: William de Mugge
- bef. 1371 or 23 February 1384–: Henry Whitefield
- bef. 1395 or 8 September 1399 – 1400: Robert Rygge
- 17/22 August 1400 – 1400: Richard Aldtyngton
- 1 November 1400 – 1429 : John Orum
- 2 August 1429 – 1442 : John Waryn
- 3 August 1442 – 1445 : Richard Helyer
- 16 June 1445 – 1449 : Michael Tregury
- 25 January 1450 – 1459: Roger Keys
- 12 July 1462–October 1475 : William Fulford
- 27 October 1475 – 1476 : John Stubbes
- 10 December 1476 – 1478 : Owen Lord
- 18 February 1478 – 8 October 1485 : Robert Barforth
- bef. 1492–: William Elyot
- ?–1508: John Vesey
- 3 August 1508–: Richard Norton
- –1515 : John Young
- 12 April 1515 – 1518 : John Tyake
- 19 January 1518 – 26 April 1528 : Richard Tollett
- 26 April 1528 – 29 May 1544 : Thomas Brerwood
Early modern
- 16 June 1544 – 1554 : John Pollard
- 20 April 1554 – 1582 : Henry Squire
- 7 January 1583 – 1585: Robert Lawe
- 24 April 1585 – 1605: William Tooker
- 27 November 1605 – 21 November 1645 : William Helyar
- 1645–1660: Vacancy during the English Commonwealth.
- 31 August 1660 – 1662: James Smith
- 1662–1679 : Joshua Tucker
- 29 August 1679 – 1703 : William Read
- 24 September 1703 – 1709 : Robert Burscough
- 9 September 1709 – 11 August 1724 : Thomas Lynford
- 1724–1731: Lewis Stephens
- 28 October 1731 – 1744 : John Grant
- 16 March 1745 – 26 October 1791 : William Hole
- 3 November 1791 – 1798 : Roger Massey
- 14 March 1798 – 3 July 1799 : John Andrew
- 25 July 1799 – 28 June 1805 : Peregrine Ilbert
- 16 August 1805–? : Jonathan Fisher
- 3 November 1807 – 1826 : Thomas Johnes
- 1826–1830 : John Bull
- 1830–1847: George Barnes
- 1847–1865: John Bartholomew
Late modern
- 1865–1885: Henry Woollcombe
- 1885–1890: Herbert Barnes
- 1890–24 December 1908 : Albert Seymour
- 1908–9 July 1930 : Robert Trefusis, Bishop of Crediton
- 1930–26 June 1935 : Frank Jones
- 1935–1945: Edgar Hay
- 1946–1958: Denis James
- 1958–1962: Guy Sanderson
- 1962–1970: Arthur Ward
- 1970–1988: Ronald Herniman
- 1989–2002 : Trevor Lloyd
- 2003–2014 : David Gunn-Johnson
- 1 September 2014 – 2015: Mike Edson
- 23 March 2014–present: Mark Butchers