The Diocese of Chelmsford is a Church of England diocese, part of the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers Essex and the five East London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, and Waltham Forest, and is co-terminous with the boundaries of the Catholic Diocese of Brentwood. It is divided into three episcopal areas, each with its own area bishop. The Diocese covers a region of around 1,500 square miles (3,900 km2) and has a population of more than 3 million; it has 463 parishes and a total of 588 churches; it is the second largest Anglican diocese in England.
Cyril William Johnston Bowles was the fourth Bishop of Derby, from 1969 to 1988.
The Archdeacon of West Ham is a senior ecclesiastical officer – in charge of the Archdeaconry of West Ham – in the Church of England Diocese of Chelmsford. The current archdeacon is Elwin Cockett.
The Archdeacons in the Diocese of Chelmsford are senior ecclesiastical officers in the Church of England in Essex and East London. They currently include: the Archdeacon of West Ham, the Archdeacon of Colchester and the archdeacons of Chelmsford, of Harlow, of Barking, of Stansted and of Southend. Each one has responsibility over a geographical area within the diocese.
Walter Hobhouse was an eminent Anglican priest and author in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Peter Sydney Godfrey Bridges, ARIBA was an Anglican priest who served in three senior posts during the last third of the twentieth century.
David William Thomas was the Archdeacon of Cardigan from 1936 until 1944.
(Evan Daniel) Aldred Williams was the Archdeacon of Cardigan from 1944 until his death.
The Ven. Charles Edward Blakeway (1868-1922) was Archdeacon of Stafford from 1911 until his death.
Ellis Norman Gowing was Archdeacon of Southend from 1938 until 1953.
Percy Matheson Bayne, was the first Archdeacon of Southend, serving from 1922 until 1938.
Michael John Fox is a retired Church of England priest and was an Archdeacon in the Diocese of Chelmsford, serving from 1993 until 2007.
Hubert Seed Wilkinson was an Anglican priest in the 20th Century.
Lawrence Joseph Peat was a Church of England priest who was Archdeacon of Westmorland and Furness from 1989 until 1995.
Ven. Herbert Ernest Campbell was an Anglican Archdeacon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Jeffrey Stanley Maples was Archdeacon of Swindon from 1974 to 1982.
The Hon. Stephen Henry Phillimore, M.C. was Archdeacon of Middlesex from 1933 until 1953.
The Ven. Robert Hodgson was Archdeacon of Stafford from 1898 to 1910.
Geoffrey Frank Hilder was Archdeacon of Taunton from 1951 until 1971.
Martin Charles William Gorick is a British Anglican bishop, who has served since 2020 as Bishop of Dudley, the sole suffragan bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Worcester. He was previously Archdeacon of Oxford in the Diocese of Oxford from 2013.
