Archdeacon of Chester

The Archdeacon of Chester is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the diocese of Chester. The area in which she, or he, has statutory duties is the Archdeaconry of Chester – those duties include some pastoral care and disciplinary supervision of the clergy in that area. The archdeaconry was created before 1135 in (what was in 1222) the Diocese of Coventry (that diocese was called Coventry and Lichfield from 1228 and then Lichfield and Coventry from 1539); it formed part of the Diocese of Chester upon her creation in 1541 and remains so today. List of archdeacons High Medieval Halmar William Robert (I) bef. 1135–aft. 1135: Richard Peche (later Bishop of Coventry) Adam de Stafford –1149: William de Villars 1149–1152: Robert (II) Hugh Thomas de Sancto Nicholao bef. 1222–aft. 1231: Ralph de Maidstone (also Dean of Hereford from 1231) In 1228, Coventry diocese became the Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. bef. 1245–1246 (res.): Silvester de Everdon (became Bishop of Carlisle) bef. 1248–aft. 1248: Richard bef. 1253–aft. 1253: John Basing Simon de Albo Monasterio, Abbot of St Werburgh's Abbey bef. 1271–aft. 1271: Adam de Stanford or Stafford bef. 1279–aft. 1284: Jordan of Wimborne/de Wimburn bef. 1289–1315 (d.): Robert de Radewell