An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Catholic Church. An archdeacon is often responsible for administration within an archdeaconry, which is the principal subdivision of the diocese. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church has defined an archdeacon as "A cleric having a defined administrative authority delegated to him by the bishop in the whole or part of the diocese." The office has often been described metaphorically as oculus episcopi, the "bishop's eye".
Peter Wheatley is a retired bishop in the Church of England. From 1995 to 1999, he was the Archdeacon of Hampstead. From 1999 to 2014, he was the Bishop of Edmonton, an area bishop in the Diocese of London.
Rt Rev Harold Nickinson Rodgers was the third Anglican Bishop of Sherborne in the modern era.
The Ven. Edward Matheson Norfolk, BA was the Archdeacon of St Albans in the Church of England from 1982 until 1987.
Edgar Francis Hall was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Totnes from 1948 until 1962.
Stephen Ronald Taylor is a retired priest of the Church of England who served as Archdeacon of Maidstone and then Diocesan Secretary in the Diocese of Canterbury.
The Archdeacon of Birmingham is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Birmingham.
The Ven. Francis Harry House OBE MA was Archdeacon of Macclesfield from 1967 to 1978.
Egbert de Grey Lucas was the Archdeacon of Durham from 1939 to 1953.
Francis Lorenz Bevan, MA was an Anglican priest in Sri Lanka during the first half of the Twentieth century: he was the Archdeacon of Jaffna from 1925 until 1935; and after that Archdeacon of Colombo from then until his death.
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.
Talbot Dilworth-Harrison was Archdeacon of Chesterfield from 1934 until 1943.
Charles Eric Corbett was a clergyman in the Church of England, who was Archdeacon of Liverpool from 1970 to 1979.
Steven James Betts is a British Church of England priest. Since 2012, he has been the Archdeacon of Norfolk.
Christine Ann Froude is a British retired Anglican priest. She was Archdeacon of Malmesbury from 2011 and Acting Archdeacon of Bristol, 2013–2018.
Ian Jagger is a retired British Anglican priest. From 2006 until retirement, he served as the archdeacon of Durham, a senior priest in the Diocese of Durham, Church of England. After parish ministry in the Diocese of London, the Diocese of Oxford, and the Diocese of Portsmouth, he was Archdeacon of Auckland from 2001 to 2006.
The Rev John Sinclair FRSE was a religious author and amateur biologist, He served as Archdeacon of Middlesex from 1844 until his death.
Frederick Boreham was Archdeacon of Cornwall and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Herbert Edward Whately MA Oxon was an Anglican priest: he was Archdeacon of Ludlow from 1939 to his death.
Nicholas Stephen Shutt is a retired Church of England priest who served as Archdeacon of Plymouth from 2019 until his retirement in 2023.
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