Archdeacon of Aston
{{Short description|Church of England ecclesiastical office}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
The Archdeacon of Aston is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Birmingham.
The Archdeacon is 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 archdeaconry's three deaneries: Aston and Sutton Coldfield, Coleshill and Polesworth, and Yardley and Solihull.
The post was created from the Archdeaconry of Birmingham by Order-in-Council on 23 October 1906{{London Gazette |issue=27960 |date=23 October 1906 |pages=7089–7090 }} and is currently held by Phelim O'Hare, who was collated at Aston Parish Church on 14 July 2024.{{Cite web |last=Birmingham |first=Church of England |title=Archdeacon of Aston announced - Church of England Birmingham |url=https://www.cofebirmingham.com/news-stories/archdeacon-of-aston-announced-.php |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=www.cofebirmingham.com |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717182453/https://www.cofebirmingham.com/news-stories/archdeacon-of-aston-announced-.php |archive-date=17 July 2024 }}{{cite web |website=Elmdon Church |title=notice sheet |date=7 July 2024 |url=https://www.elmdonchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Prayer-sheet-070724.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240706082441/https://www.elmdonchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Prayer-sheet-070724.pdf |archive-date=6 July 2024 |access-date=1 August 2024 }}
List of archdeacons
- 1906–1912 (res.): Mansfield Owen{{Who's Who
| title=Owen, Charles Mansfield
| id = U215050
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2007
| edition = December 2007 online
| access-date = 17 March 2014
}}
- 1912–1913 (res.): Walter Hobhouse{{Who's Who
| title=Hobhouse, Walter
| id = U197933
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2007
| edition = December 2007 online
| access-date = 17 March 2014
}}
- 1913–1920 (res.): George Gardner{{Who's Who
| title=Gardner, George Lawrence Harter
| id = U196752
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2007
| edition = December 2007 online
| access-date = 17 March 2014
}}
- 1920–1938 (res.): Harold Richards{{Who's Who
| title=Richards, John Harold
| id = U242267
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2007
| edition = December 2012 online
| access-date = 17 March 2014
}}
- 1938–1946 (res.): Henry McGowan (afterwards Bishop of Wakefield){{Who's Who
| title=McGowan, Henry
| id = U229088
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2007
| edition = December 2012 online
| access-date = 17 March 2014
}}
- 1946–1954 (res.): Michael Parker (afterwards Bishop suffragan of Aston){{Who's Who
| title=Parker, Clement George St Michael
| id = U158245
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2007
| edition = December 2012 online
| access-date = 17 March 2014
}}
- 1954–1955: vacant
- 1955–2 October 1964 (d.): Maxwell Dunlop{{Who's Who
| title=Dunlop, Maxwell Tulloch
| id = U55481
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2007
| edition = December 2007 online
| access-date = 17 March 2014
}}
- 1965–1977 (ret.): Francis Warman (afterward archdeacon emeritus){{Who's Who
| title=Warman, Francis Frederic Guy
| id = U176117
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2007
| edition = December 2012 online
| access-date = 17 March 2014
}}
- 1977–1982 (res.): Donald Tytler (afterwards Bishop suffragan of Middleton){{Who's Who
| title=Tytler, Donald Alexander
| id = U175985
| type = was
| volume = 1920–2007
| edition = December 2012 online
| access-date = 17 March 2014
}}
- 1982–1990 (res.): John Cooper{{Who's Who
| title=Cooper, John Leslie
| id = U11803
| volume = 2014
| edition = December 2013 online
| access-date = 17 March 2014
}}
- 1990–2003 (ret.): John Barton{{Who's Who
| title=Barton, (Charles) John Greenwood
| id = U6711
| volume = 2014
| edition = December 2013 online
| access-date = 17 March 2014
}} (afterward archdeacon emeritus)
- 2005–25 January 2014 (res.): Brian Russell{{Who's Who
| title=Russell, Brian Kenneth
| id = U45910
| volume = 2014
| edition = December 2013 online
| access-date = 17 March 2014
- 16 November 2014{{snd}}30 September 2022 (res.):{{Church Times |title=Resignations and retirements |date=18 November 2022|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/18-november/gazette/resignations/resignations-and-retirements }} Simon Heathfield[http://www.cofebirmingham.com/news/2014/09/08/notification-appointments/ Diocese of Birmingham – Notification of Appointments, 8 September 2014] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914000008/http://www.cofebirmingham.com/news/2014/09/08/notification-appointments/ |date=14 September 2014 }} (Accessed 13 September 2014)
- 14 July 2024{{snd}}present: Phelim O'Hare
References
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{{Archdeacons of Aston}}
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