Archdeacon of Carlisle

The Archdeacon of Carlisle is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Carlisle. The archdeacon is responsible for some pastoral care and discipline of the clergy in the ancient archdeaconry of Carlisle. Sources would seem to indicate that the archdeaconry was created at the same time as the diocese; it was first split seven centuries later on 31 August 1847 with the creation of the Westmorland archdeaconry.

List of archdeacons

High Medieval bef. 1133–bef. 1151: Elias bef. 1151–aft. 1166: Robert bef. 1190–aft. 1194: Peter de Ros –aft. 1208: Aimeric (also Archdeacon of Durham) 18 November 1203: Alexander de Lucy (ineffective royal grant) aft. 1208–aft. 1223: G. de Lascy aft. 1223–aft. 1234: Gervase de Louther bef. 1238–aft. 1238: Robert de Otrington bef. 1244–aft. 1255: Walter de Ulceby bef. 1263–bef. 1267: Michael de Hamsted bef. 1267–aft. 1267: N. bef. –aft. : H. bef. –aft. : Nicholas de Lewelin bef. 1285–aft. 1299: Richard de Lyth/de Whitby

Late Medieval 21 November 1302–bef. 1311 (d.): Peter de Insula/Lisle 26 November 1311 – 12 March 1318 (res.): Gilbert de Halton 27 June 1318–bef. 1320: Thomas de Caldebeck 27 December 1320–bef. 1322: Henry de Carlisle bef. 1322–aft. 1340: William de Kendal aft. 1340–bef. 1350 (d.): William de Briseban bef. 1350–aft. 1350: John Marescal 1350–bef. 1355: William de Savinhaco bef. 1355–May 1364 (d.): William Rothbury 18 May 1364 – 19 October 1379 (res.): John de Appleby bef. 1379–bef. 1391: Thomas Felton bef. 1391–bef. 1405: Thomas de Karlel bef. 1405–bef. 1410: Thomas Strickland 13 December 1410–bef. 1415: John Burdett bef. 1415–bef. 1423 (d.): John de Kirkby bef. 1428–bef. 1437: Alexander Cok bef. 1437–bef. 1448: Richard Hervey bef. 1448–30 January 1450 (res.): Nicholas Close bef. 1452–1470 (d.): Stephen Close bef. 1463–1465 (res.): George Neville bef. 1490–1509 (d.): Hugh Dacre bef. 1510–bef. 1520: Cuthbert Conyers bef. 1520–aft. 1530: William Bourbank bef. 1534–aft. 1547: William Holgill

Early modern bef. 1558–1567 (d.): George Neville 11 March 1568 – 1588 (d.): Edward Threlkeld 8 October 1588 – 3 June 1597 (res.): Henry Dethick 8 June 1597 – 10 November 1599 (res.): Richard Pilkington 6 February 1600 – 17 June 1602 (res.): Giles Robinson 18 June 1602–bef. 1604 (res.): Nicholas Deane 3 February 1604–bef. 1621 (d.): George Warwick –bef. 1623 (d.): Robert Wright 15 January 1623–bef. 1643 (d.): Isaac Singleton ?–bef. 1660 (res.): Peter Wentworth 14 November 1660–bef. 1667 (d.): Lewis West 28 November 1667 – 13 March 1669 (res.): John Peachell 23 March 1669 – 29 September 1682 (res.): Thomas Musgrave 3 October 1682 – 1702 (res.): William Nicolson July 1702–13 November 1704 (d.): Joseph Fisher 28 March 1705 – 1735 (res.): George Fleming (also Dean of Carlisle from 1727) March 1735–17 March 1743 (d.): William Fleming 21 April 1743 – 19 February 1756 (res.): Edmund Law 2 March 1756 – 18 May 1777 (d.): Venn Eyre 10 July 1777 – 5 August 1782 (res.): John Law 5 August 1782 – 29 January 1805 (res.): William Paley 29 January 1805 – 7 June 1827 (d.): Charles Anson 20 June 1827 – 18 November 1831 (res.): William Goodenough 10 February 1832 – 13 December 1854 (d.): William Goodenough (reinstated) 11 June 1855 – 1858: William Jackson

Late modern 1858–1867: William Phelps 1867–1882: Samuel Boutflower 1883–17 February 1920 (d.): Eustace Prescott 1920–17 June 1930 (d.): Ernest Campbell 1930–24 September 1933 (d.): Donald Campbell (son of Ernest) 1934–1944 (ret.): Grandage Powell, Bishop suffragan of Penrith 1944–1946 (res.): Geoffrey Warde 1947–October 1958 (ret.): Alexander Chisholm (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 1958–1970 (res.): Charles Nurse (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 1970–1978 (ret.): Richard Bradford (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 1978–1984 (ret.): Walter Ewbank (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 1984–1993 (ret.): Colin Stannard (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 1993–5 May 2001 (d.): David Turnbull 2002–2008 (res.): David Thomson 2009–31 March 2016 (res.): Kevin RobertsDiocese of Carlisle — Kevin appointed new director of Christian charity ReSource (Accessed 30 April 2016) 2016–2017: Chris Sims (Acting) JuneJuly 2016 (archdeacon-designate): Jonathan Brewster (announcedDiocese of Carlisle — New Archdeacon of Carlisle is appointed (Accessed 17 June 2016) and withdrew)Cumberland & Westmorland Herald — Archdeacon withdraws within weeks of appointment (Accessed 2 September 2016) 25 February 201731 December 2022 (res.): Lee TownendDiocese of Carlisle — New Archdeacons of Carlisle and Westmorland and Furness (Accessed 4 October 2016) & Carlisle Cathedral — News and Events (Accessed 8 February 2017) 202331 March 2024 (ret.): Richard Pratt (previously Archdeacon of West Cumberland) 8 September 2024present: Ruth Newton

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