List of Archdeacons of Merioneth
This is a list of the archdeacons of Merioneth (Meirionnydd). The Archdeacon of Merioneth is the priest in charge of the archdeaconry of Merioneth, an administrative division of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor. The archdeaconry comprises the five deaneries of Ardudwy, Arwystili, Cyfeiliog/Mawddwy, Llyn/Eifionydd and Ystumaner.[1]
Archdeacons of Merioneth
- Gruffydd Young
- (1328)(1331) Tudur ap Adda
- 1358-1387 Samuel de Wyk
- 1387 - John Sloley
- -1404 John ap Rhys
- 1404- John Fychan
- 1405 Griffin le Yonge
- -1410 (Matthew Peyworden (alias Wotton)
- 1410- Roger Hungarten
- 1416- John Estcourt
- 1436 Richard Gele
- 1485 Richard Bulkeley
- 1504 Richard Bromfield
- ?-1524 William Glyn (later Bishop of Bangor, 1555)
- 1524-1562 William Roberts
- 1562-1566 Nicholas Robinson, then held in commendam to 1573[2] (afterwards Bishop of Bangor, 1566)
- 1574-1576 Humphrey Robinson
- 1576-1623 Edmund Prys
- 1623-1657 Robert White
- 1660–1666 Robert Morgan (afterwards Bishop of Bangor, 1666)
- 1666-1668 John Lloyd
- 1668-1672 William Lloyd (later Bishop of Llandaff, 1675)
- 1672-1676 Simon Lloyd
- 1676-1680 Michael Hughes
- 1680-1683 Hugh Pugh
- 1683-1713 Francis Lloyd,
- 1713-1716 Lancelot Bulkley
- 1716 Richard Langford
- 1733 Hugh Wynne
- 1754 John Ellis
- 1785 John Roberts
- 1802-1809 Peter Williams
- 1809-1834 John Jones
- 1834-1857 Richard Newcombe
- 1857-1866 Henry White
- 1866-1891 John Evans
- 1891-1906 Thomas Williams
- 1906-1931 John Lloyd Jones
- 1931-1940 Thomas Williams
- 1940-1953 David Jenkins
- 1953-1959 Henry Williams
- 1959-1976 Wallis Thomas
- 1983-1986 Elwyn Roberts (afterwards Archdeacon of Bangor, 1986}
- 1986-1993 Barry Morgan (afterwards Bishop of Bangor, 1993)
- 1993-1999 Saunders Davies (afterwards Bishop of Bangor, 2000)
- 2000-2002 Carl Cooper (afterwards Bishop of St David's, 2002)
- 2002-2004 Arfon Williams
- 2004-2010 Emyr Rowlands
- 2010-present Andrew Jones
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