The Archdeacon of Macclesfield is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Chester.Diocesan web site As such she or he is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy"ABCD: a basic church dictionary" Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 within its six rural deaneries: Bowdon, Congleton, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Mottram, Nantwich, Chadkirk, Cheadle and Stockport.Crockford's on line (Accessed Sunday 4 December 2011)
The archdeaconry of Macclesfield was created from the Chester archdeaconry on 21 September 1880 (the Diocese of Liverpool having been created from the Liverpool archdeaconry earlier that year).
List of archdeacons 1880–1884 (res.): James Kelly 1884–1893 (res.): Arthur Gore 1893–1904 (res.): Maxwell Woosnam 1904–28 December 1918 (d.): Maitland Wood 1919–27 April 1922 (d.): Edward Mercer 1922–7 January 1932 (d.): John Thorpe 1932–26 October 1941 (d.): John Armitstead 1941–7 October 1950 (d.): Frank Okell (also Bishop suffragan of Stockport from 1949) 1950–1958 (ret.): Tyler Whittle (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 1958–4 April 1965 (d.): Thomas Clarke 1965–13 May 1967 (d.): Harry Saunders 1967–1978 (ret.): Francis House (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 1978–1985 (ret.): Rennie Simpson (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 1985–1994 (res.): John Gaisford 1994–2010 (ret.): Richard Gillings (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 201129 September 2023: Ian Bishop (became Bishop of Thetford) 28 April 2024present: Jane Proudfoot
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