The Archdeacon of Sudbury is a senior cleric in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
The archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy [1] in its five rural deaneries; Clare, Ixworth, Lavenham, Sudbury and Thingoe. [2]
This archdeaconry was separated from the original archdeaconry of Suffolk in 1127. [3] Sudbury which comprised eight deaneries in 1256 and in 1911 had eleven. [3] There were also three districts under peculiar jurisdiction of Canterbury and one under that of Rochester. [3]
Originally in the Diocese of Norwich, the Sudbury archdeaconry was transferred by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Diocese of Ely in 1837. It was then transferred a second time to the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 1914. The current archdeacon is David Jenkins. [4]
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