High Medieval :
Diocesan archdeacons: Four archdeacons occur in records but cannot be clearly identified with a particular territory: • bef. 1086–aft. 1107:
Geoffrey • bef. 1107–aft. 1114:
Alfred • bef. 1101–aft. 1115:
Osbern • bef. 1111–aft. 1115:
Walter :
Archdeacons of Norwich: • bef. 1127–aft. 1148:
William (I) • aft. 1146:
Ralph • bef. 1161–aft. 1164:
Philip • bef. 1168–aft. 1178:
William (II) • bef. 1182–aft. 1198:
Thomas • 1200–1225 (res.):
Geoffrey de Burgh • 1228–1229 (res.):
Luke the chaplain (became
Archbishop of Dublin) • 1229–aft. 1238:
John of Ferentino • bef. 1248–aft. 1252:
William de Suffield • & :
post not vacant • bef. 1273–aft. 1289 (res.):
Thomas de Skerning (became
Archdeacon of Suffolk)
Late Medieval • 4 February 1302 – 1324 (res.):
William de Knapton (became Archdeacon of Suffolk) • 16 April 1324–bef. 1328 (res.):
Roger de Snetisham • 8 December 1328 – 1340 (res.):
William Bateman • 1340–1347 (res.):
Thomas Fastolf • January 1347–bef. 1349:
Hamo de Belers • February 1347–bef. May 1347 (rev.):
Thomas de Bradwardine (ineffective royal grant) • May 1347–?:
John Berenger (ineffective royal grant) • 27 August 1349 – 1355 (d.):
Richard Lyng • 9 April 1355–bef. 1361 (d.):
Richard de Norwico • 17 October 1361 – 27 March 1387 (exch.):
William Swynflet • 27 March 1387–aft. 1801:
John Derlyngton • 17 November 1395:
John de Middleton (ineffective royal grant) • November 1406–bef. November 1407 (res.):
Robert Wolveden • 12 November 1407–bef. 1419 (d.):
William Westacre • 11 April 1419 – 1426 (d.):
Henry Kays • bef. 1428–aft. 1455:
Richard Cawdray • bef. 1465–1459 (res.):
John Hales • bef. 1461–bef. 1462 (res.):
John Morton • bef. 1463–aft. 1463:
Vincent Clement • bef. 1472–3 January 1477 (exch.): John Morton
(again; also
Archdeacon of Winchester from 1475 and
of Berks from 1476) • 3 January 1477–aft. 1483:
Thomas Marke • bef. 1484–1497 (res.):
Nicholas Goldwell (became Archdeacon of Suffolk) • 20 April 1497–bef. 1509 (res.):
Robert Honywood • 14 June 1509–bef. 1517 (d.):
John Ednam • 5 February 1517 – 1522 (res.):
William Stillington (became
Archdeacon of Norfolk) • 9 April 1522–bef. 1528 (res.):
Thomas Larke • 26 June 1528–July 1543 (d.):
George Wyndham • 25 November 1543–bef. 1557 (d.):
Thomas Cornwalleys Early modern • 16 October 1557–bef. 1571 (d.):
Richard Underwood • 15 February 1572 – 1576 (d.):
Thomas Roberts (bishop's grant) • bef. 1572 (disp.):
John Rugge (ineffective bishop's grant) • 1 August 1573 (disp.):
George Gardiner (disputed queen's grant;
Dean of Norwich from November 1573) • 9 August 1581 – 4 September 1604 (d.):
John Freake • 12 September 1604–bef. 1618 (d.):
Thomas Jegon • 13 April 1618–bef. 1652 (d.):
Andrew Bing • 18 October 1660 – 31 March 1668 (d.):
William Gery • 20 April 1668–?:
John Reynolds • 8 June 1676 – 12 March 1694 (d.):
John Conant • 19 April 1694 – 1 April 1720 (d.):
John Jeffery • 5 May 1720–bef. 1722 (res.):
William Trimnel (became
Dean of Winchester) • 22 February 1722 – 19 May 1742 (d.):
Christopher Clarke • 13 July 1742–bef. 1744 (res.):
Matthew Postlethwayte • 11 October 1744 – 13 June 1782 (d.):
John Berney • 15 June 1782–bef. 1814 (res.):
William Yonge • 22 November 1814 – 10 September 1844 (d.):
Henry Bathurst • 23 September 1844 – 29 March 1857 (d.):
John Collyer • 1 July 1857 – 27 March 1868 (d.):
Robert Hankinson Late modern • 1868–7 January 1878 (d.):
Augustus Hopper • 1878–1910:
Thomas Perowne (died 1913) • 1910–24 February 1918 (d.):
Frederick Westcott • 1918–1920 (res.):
Charles Lisle Carr (became
Archdeacon of Sheffield) • 1920–1938:
George MacDermott • 1937–1954:
Thomas Perowne (died 1954) (son of the above) • 1954–1961 (ret.):
Robert Meiklejohn (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) • 1961–1973 (res.):
Aubrey Aitken (became
Bishop–
Archdeacon of Lynn) • 1973–1981 (res.):
Timothy Dudley-Smith (became
Bishop of Thetford) • 1981–1993 (res.):
Michael Handley (became
Archdeacon of Norfolk) • 1994–2008 (ret.):
Clifford Offer • 2009–29 June 2016 (res.)
Jan McFarlane (became
Bishop of Repton) • 13 November 20161 April 2022 (res.):
Karen Hutchinson • 1 October 2022present:
Keith James ==References==