Archdeacon of Hackney

The Archdeacon of Hackney is a senior Anglican priest serving the diocese of London,^[1] responsible for disciplinary and pastoral supervision of the clergy^[2] within its three area deaneries: Hackney, Islington and Tower Hamlets.^[3]

Created from the archdeaconry of London by Order-in-Council on 2 March 1951, at its erection the archdeaconry comprised the rural deaneries of Bethnal Green, of Hackney and Stoke Newington, of Islington, of Poplar and of Stepney.^[4]

List of archdeacons

1951 – 1971 (resigned): Michael Hodgins^[5]
1971 – 1981 (retired): George Timms (then Archdeacon Emeritus)^[6]
1981 – 1992 (resigned): Roger Sharpley^[7]
1992 – 1999 (translated): Clive Young (then Bishop of Dunwich)^[8]
1999 – 2010 (retired): Lyle Dennen^[9]
2011 – 2015 (translated): Rachel Treweek (then Bishop of Gloucester)^[10]
2015 – 2016 (acting): Jonathan Brewster^[11]
5 April 2016 – 13 August 2021 (resigned): Liz Adekunle^[12]^[13]
10 April 2022 – present: Peter Farley-Moore^[14]^[15]

References

^ Diocesan web site Archived February 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
^ "ABCD: a basic church dictionary" Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 ISBN 978-1-85311-420-5
^ Crockford's on line accessed Saturday 4 February 2012 13:23 GMT
^ "No. 39161". The London Gazette. 2 March 1951. p. 1103.
^ "Hodgins, Michael Minden". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 11 May 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Timms, George Boorne". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 11 May 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Sharpley, Roger Ernest Dion". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 11 May 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Young, Clive". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 11 May 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Dennen, Lyle". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 11 May 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Treweek, Rachel". Who's Who. Vol. 2013 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 11 May 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Diocese of Carlisle — New Archdeacon of Carlisle is appointed Archived 2016-08-21 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 17 June 2016)
^ Diocese of London — Liz Adekunle was collated... (Accessed 18 April 2016)
^ "Resignations and retirements".
^ "Joanne Woolway Grenfell". Twitter. 10 April 2022. Archived from the original on 10 April 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
^ "Appointments". Church Times. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2023.

Archdeacons of Hackney

Diocese of London

St Paul's Cathedral
Westminster Abbey (second cathedral, 1550–1556)
The Old Deanery, London
Diocesan House, London
Diocese of Westminster (1540–1550)
Area scheme (1979–present)

Office holders

Diocesan bishop	Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London
Area bishops	Emma Ineson, Bishop of Kensington Joanne Grenfell, Bishop of Stepney Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy, Bishop of Willesden Anderson Jeremiah, Bishop of Edmonton
Other suffragan bishops	AEO: Jonathan Baker, Bishop suffragan of Fulham & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Ric Thorpe, Bishop of Islington (bishop for church plants) Pete Broadbent, Bishop's Adviser (2030 Vision) and honorary assistant bishop
Deans and senior priests	Andrew Tremlett, Dean of St Paul's
Archdeacons	Luke Miller, Archdeacon of London John Hawkins, Archdeacon of Hampstead Richard Frank, Archdeacon of Middlesex Catherine Pickford, Archdeacon of Northolt Peter Farley-Moore, Archdeacon of Hackney Katherine Hedderly, Archdeacon-designate of Charing Cross

Historic offices

Bishop suffragan of Bedford (1534–1914)
Bishop suffragan of Marlborough (1888–1918)
Archdeacon of Colchester; Archdeacon of Essex (both: 12th century–1846; moved to Rochester then St Albans then Chelmsford)
Archdeacon of St Albans (1550–1845; moved to Rochester then St Albans)

Historic residences

Fulham Palace (8th century–1975)
London House, Ludgate Hill (?–17th century)
London House, Aldersgate (18th century)
London House, St James's (18th–19th centuries)

Archdeacons in the Church of England

Current

northern province	Auckland Blackburn Bolton Bradford Carlisle Chester Cleveland Doncaster Durham East Riding (York) Halifax Lancaster Leeds Lindisfarne Liverpool Knowsley and Sefton Macclesfield Man Manchester Newark Nottingham Northumberland Pontefract Richmond and Craven Rochdale St Helens and Warrington Salford Sheffield and Rotherham Stoke Sunderland Walsall West Cumberland Westmorland and Furness Wigan and West Lancashire York (West Riding)
southern province	Ashford Aston Barnstaple Barking Bath Bedford Berkshire Birmingham Bodmin Boston Bournemouth Brighton & Lewes Bristol Bromley & Bexley Buckingham Cambridge Canterbury Chelmsford Charing Cross ("Two Cities") Cheltenham Chichester Colchester Cornwall Coventry ("Archdeacon Pastor") Croydon Derby City and South Derbyshire Derbyshire Peak and Dales Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley East Derbyshire Eastern Archdeaconry (Europe) Exeter France Germany and Northern Europe Gibraltar Gloucester Hackney Hampstead Harlow Hastings Hereford Hertford Horsham Huntingdon and Wisbech Ipswich Isle of Wight Italy and Malta Lambeth Leicester Lewisham & Greenwich Lichfield Lincoln London Loughborough Ludlow Lynn Maidstone Malmesbury The Meon Middlesex Norfolk North West Europe Northampton Northolt Norwich Oakham Oxford Plymouth Portsdown Reigate Rochester St Albans Salop/Shropshire (Lichfield diocese) Sarum Sherborne Southend Southwark Stansted Stow and Lindsey Sudbury Suffolk Surrey Switzerland Taunton Tonbridge Totnes Wandsworth Warwick ("Archdeacon Missioner") Wells West Ham Westminster Wilts Winchester Worcester
non-territorial	Military archdeacons: Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force Prison Service "Archdeacon Missioner" (see Warwick) & "Archdeacon Pastor" (see Coventry) Rural Mission (Eds & Ips diocese)