List of Archdeacons of Coventry

This is a list of the Archdeacons of Coventry, a post historically in the Diocese of Lichfield. From 1837, the archdeaconry was in the Diocese of Worcester, and since 1918 it has been in the Diocese of Coventry. Since 2009, the archdeacon of Coventry has also had statutory oversight over the Archdeaconry of Warwick, delegated from the Archdeacon Missioner, in preparation for the merging of the two archdeaconries.^[1]

• bef. 1140–1161: Richard Peche
• ?–c. 1250: Lawrence of St Martin
• 1247–?: William of Kilkenny
• ?–bef. 1286: John Kirkby
• 1488–1505: Thomas Mills
• bef. 1509: George Strangeways
• ?–1512: Ralph Colyngwood
• 1512–1558: John Blythe
• 1560–1577: Thomas Lever
• 1577–1584: William James
• 1584–1631: William Hinton
• 1631: Samuel Brooke
• 1631–1642: Ralph Brownrigg
• 1642–1661: Francis Walsall
• 1661–1673: John Riland
• 1673–1684: George Downing
• 1684–1703: Lancelot Addison
• 1703–1708: Richard Davies
• 1708–1741: William Wilson
• 1741–1778: Thomas Smallbrook
• 1778–1793: Norman Fotheringham
• 1793–1816: William Vyse
• 1816–1827: Charles Buckeridge
• 1827–1851: William Spooner
• 1851–1873: John Sandford
• 1927–1935: Joseph Hunkin
• ?–c. 1940: Richard Brook
• 2001–2007: Mark Bryant
• January 2008–present: Ian Watson

References

1. ^ Background Notes to the Appointment of an Archdeacon Missioner

• Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, vol. 10 in the edition by B. Jones, pp.14–16
• Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1837, vol. 10 in the edition by Joyce M. Horn, pp.8–9
• Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1837, vol. 7 in the edition by Joyce M. Horn, pp.114