:Archdeacon of Sheffield and Rotherham
{{Short description|Church of England ecclesiastical office}}
The Archdeacon of Sheffield and Rotherham is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Sheffield (Church of England), responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy"ABCD: a basic church dictionary" Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 {{ISBN|978-1-85311-420-5}} within the six area deaneries.
History
On 18 April 1884 the Archdeaconry of Sheffield, consisting of the rural Deaneries of Sheffield, Handsworth, Ecclesford, Rotherham and Wath, was created within the Diocese of York from part of the York archdeaconry.{{London Gazette|issue=25344|pages=1751–1753|date=18 April 1884}} In 1913 the deanery of Wath was split off to form part of the new Archdeaconry of Doncaster.{{London Gazette|issue=28691|pages=1229–1230|date=18 February 1913}}
In 1914 the Archdeaconries of Sheffield and Doncaster were split off from the Diocese of York to create the new Diocese of Sheffield.{{London Gazette|issue=28795|page=588| date=23 January 1914}} In 1942 the deaneries of Sheffield and Handsworth were abolished and replaced by the deaneries of Attercliffe, Ecclesall, Hallam, Laughton and Tankersley.{{London Gazette|issue=35748|page=4495|date=16 October 1942}} The current (2014) six deaneries comprise Attercliffe, Ecclesall, Ecclesfield, Hallam, Laughton and Rotherham.
List of archdeacons
:Blakeney was the first archdeacon after the archdeaconry was created in 1884.
- 1884{{snd}}12 January 1895 (d.): John Blakeney, Vicar of Sheffield (Parish Church)
- 1895{{snd}}21 September 1896 (d.): Henry Favell, Vicar of St Mark's
- 1897{{snd}}12 June 1912 (d.): John Eyre, Vicar of Sheffield (Parish Church){{Who's Who
| title=Eyre, John Rashdall
| id = U185832
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| edition = April 2014 online
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- 1912{{snd}}1920 (res.): Herbert Gresford Jones, Vicar of Sheffield (Parish Church/Cathedral; became Bishop in Kampala){{Who's Who
| title=Jones, Herbert Gresford
| id = U239261
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2015
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
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:In 1914, the new Sheffield diocese was created from Sheffield and Doncaster archdeaconries.
- 1920{{snd}}1922 (res.): Charles Lisle Carr, Vicar of Sheffield (Cathedral; became Bishop of Coventry){{Who's Who
| title=Carr, Charles Lisle
| id = U223523
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2015
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
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- 1922{{snd}}1931 (res.): Russell Darbyshire, Vicar of Sheffield (Cathedral; became Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway then Archbishop of Cape Town){{Who's Who
| title=Darbyshire, John Russell
| id = U224439
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2015
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
}}
- 1931{{snd}}1933 (res.): Alfred Jarvis, Provost of Sheffield (Vicar of the Cathedral){{Who's Who
| title=Jarvis, Alfred Charles Eustace
| id = U239120
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2015
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
}}
- 1933{{snd}}1934 (ret.): Alexander Doull, assistant bishop, Vicar of Brodsworth{{Who's Who
| title=Doull, Alexander John
| id = U208728
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2015
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
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- 1934{{snd}}1938 (ret.): Alfred Jarvis, Provost of Sheffield (Vicar of the Cathedral; again)
- 1938{{snd}}1943 (ret.): William Baker, Rector of Handsworth (afterwards archdeacon emeritus){{Who's Who
| title=Baker, William Arthur
| id = U222176
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2015
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
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- 1943{{snd}}1957 (res.): Douglas Harrison, Bishop's Examining Chaplain, Canon Residentiary and Director of Ordinands (became Dean of Bristol){{Who's Who
| title=Harrison, Douglas Ernest William
| id = U155366
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2015
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
}}
- 1958{{snd}}1962 (res.): Robin Woods, Rector of Tankersley (became Dean of Windsor){{Who's Who
| title=Woods, Robert Wilmer (Robin)
| id = U182886
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2015
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
}}
- 1963{{snd}}1978 (ret.): Hayman Johnson, Bishop's Examining Chaplain (afterwards archdeacon emeritus){{Who's Who
| title=Johnson, Hayman
| id = U173449
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2015
| edition = April 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
}}
- 1978{{snd}}1987 (ret.): Michael Paton (afterwards archdeacon emeritus){{Who's Who
| title=Paton, Ven. Michael John Macdonald
| id = U30238
| volume = 2015
| edition = October 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
}}
- 1988{{snd}}1999 (res.): Stephen Lowe (became Bishop suffragan of Hulme){{Who's Who
| title=Lowe, Stephen Richard
| id = U21159
| volume = 2015
| edition = October 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
}}
:In 1999, the name of the archdeaconry was changed to Sheffield and Rotherham.
- 1999{{snd}}2009 (res.): Richard Blackburn (became Bishop suffragan of Warrington){{Who's Who
| title=Blackburn, Richard Finn
| id = U7721
| volume = 2015
| edition = October 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
}}
- 2010{{snd}}2013 (res.): Martyn Snow (became Bishop suffragan of Tewkesbury){{Who's Who
| title=Snow, Martyn James
| id = U251572
| volume = 2015
| edition = October 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
}}
- 19 January 2014{{snd}}present: Malcolm Chamberlain{{Who's Who
| title=Chamberlain, Malcolm Leslie
| id = U281766
| volume = 2015
| edition = October 2014 online
| access-date = 15 December 2014
References
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{{Archdeacons of Sheffield and Rotherham}}
{{Diocese of Sheffield}}
{{Archdeacons in the Church of England}}
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