In the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church as well as some Lutheran denominations, a rural dean is a member of clergy who presides over a "rural deanery" ; "ruridecanal" is the corresponding adjective. In some Church of England dioceses rural deans have been formally renamed as area deans.
Westcott House is a Church of England theological college based in Jesus Lane in the centre of the university city of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Its main activity is training people for ordained ministry in the Church of England and other Anglican churches. Westcott House is a founder member of the Cambridge Theological Federation. The college is considered by many to be "Modern Catholic" or "Liberal Catholic" in its tradition, but accepts ordinands from a range of traditions in the Church of England.
David John Lee is a former Archdeacon of Bradford in the Church of England Diocese of Leeds. On retirement as an archdeacon he was made archdeacon emeritus and given a co-ordinating role for mission resources in the diocese until his expected retirement in 2016.
Arthur Frederick Ward was Archdeacon of Barnstaple from 1962 to 1970 and Archdeacon of Exeter from 1970 to 1981.
Joan Howson (1885–1964) was a British stained glass artist of the Arts and Crafts movement. She trained at the Liverpool School of Art before becoming a student and apprentice to Caroline Townshend. They later developed a lifelong partnership creating stained glass works under the name of their company, Townshend and Howson.
Richard Paul Davies is the current Archdeacon of Surrey and former Archdeacon of Bangor.
Janet Henderson is a Welsh Anglican priest and former nurse. In 2012, she became the first woman appointed to the post of Dean of Llandaff.
Cherry Elizabeth Vann is a British Anglican priest. She served as Archdeacon of Rochdale from 2008 to 2019, and spent all of her ordained ministry with the Church of England in the Diocese of Manchester. In September 2019, she was announced as bishop-elect of the Diocese of Monmouth in the Church in Wales.
Paul Wright is a British Anglican priest who has been the Archdeacon of Bromley & Bexley since 2003.
The archdeacons in the Diocese in Europe are senior clergy of the Church of England Diocese in Europe. They each have responsibility over their own archdeaconry, of which there are currently seven, each of which is composed of one or more deaneries, which are composed in turn of chaplaincies.
Jonathan Peter Smith is an Anglican priest and the current Archdeacon of St Albans. Before becoming archdeacon in 2008, he served as a chaplain and a vicar.
Robert Williams is a Welsh Anglican priest. He was the Archdeacon of Gower from 2000 to 2016.
Charles Eric Corbett was a clergyman in the Church of England, who was Archdeacon of Liverpool from 1970 to 1979.
William Phillip "Bill" Thomas was Archdeacon of Llandaff from 1998 to 2004.
Judith Karen "Judy" French is a British Anglican priest. Since 2014, she has been the Archdeacon of Dorchester in the Diocese of Oxford.
Hugh Glaisyer was the Archdeacon of Lewes & Hastings from 1991 to 1997.
Philip Hugh Jones was Archdeacon of Lewes & Hastings from 2005 to 2012 and, after renaming, Archdeacon of Hastings from 2012 to 2015.
Richard Lee "Rick" Simpson is a British Anglican priest. He has been the Archdeacon of Auckland in the Diocese of Durham since 2018.
Luke Thomas Irvine-Capel SSC is a British Anglican priest currently serving as Archdeacon of Chichester, a senior ecclesiastical role in the Church of England and the Diocese of Chichester.
