Archdeacon of Totnes
The Archdeacon of Totnes or Totton is the senior ecclesiastical officer in charge of one of the oldest archdeaconries in England. It is an administrative division of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter and under the oversight of the Bishop suffragan of Plymouth.
History
The first recorded archdeacon of Exeter occurs in 1083, around the time when archdeacons were first appointed in Britain. Around that time, the Diocese of Exeter was divided into four archdeaconries: Exeter, Cornwall, Totnes (or Totton) and Barnstaple (or Barum). This configuration of archdeaconries within the diocese remained for almost 800 years, until the creation of the independent Diocese of Truro from the Cornwall archdeaconry.[1] On 22 March 1918, the archdeaconries were reconfigured and the Archdeaconry of Plymouth created from Totnes archdeaconry.[2] Presently, the diocese operates an informal 'area scheme' such that responsibility for roughly half the diocese is delegated to each suffragan bishop: special oversight is given to the Bishop of Crediton for the Barnstaple and Exeter archdeaconries and to the Bishop of Plymouth for the Plymouth and Totnes archdeaconries.[3]
The archdeacon oversees the deaneries of Moreton, Newton Abbot and Ipplepen, Okehampton, Torbay, Totnes and Woodleigh, in Devon, southwest England.
List of archdeacons
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References
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 24394. p. 6933. 15 December 1876. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 30591. pp. 3624–3625. 22 March 1918. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
- ↑ Diocese of Exeter – Vacancy in the Suffragan See of Crediton
- ↑ http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/misericordias-domini-in-aeternum.html
- ↑ Wilkinson, Charles Thomas. Who Was Who. 1920–2015 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ Simms, Arthur Hennell. Who Was Who. 1920–2015 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ Leeke, Thomas Newton. Who Was Who. 1920–2015 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ Cobham, John Lawrence. Who Was Who. 1920–2015 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ Hall, Edgar Francis. Who Was Who. 1920–2015 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ Hawkins, John Stanley. Who Was Who. 1920–2015 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ Newhouse, (Robert) John (Darrell). Who Was Who. 1920–2015 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ Lucas, John Michael. Who Was Who. 1920–2015 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ Hawkins, Richard Stephen. Who's Who. 2014 (November 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ Tremlett, Anthony Frank. Who's Who. 2014 (November 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ Gilpin, Richard Thomas. Who's Who. 2014 (November 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ Rawlings, John Edmund Frank. Who's Who. 2014 (November 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ Diocese of Exeter – New archdeacons for Totnes and Barnstaple announced & ad clerum (Accessed 2 January 2015)
Sources
- "Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions (1889)". Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Totnes or Totton (Chapter). Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. 1 (1854 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Wikisource. pp. 401–404.
- Horn, Joyce M., Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, 9, pp. 17–19