Archdeacon of Birmingham

The Archdeacon of Birmingham is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Birmingham.

The archdeaconry was created within the Diocese of Worcester by Order-in-Council on 12 August 1892 (substantially from the Archdeaconry of Coventry but also from a small part of the Worcester archdeaconry)^[1] but became part of the new Diocese of Birmingham upon its creation by Order-in-Council on 13 January 1905.^[2]

The Archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy^[3] within the archdeaconry's six deaneries: Edgbaston; Handsworth and Central; Kings Norton; Moseley; Shirley; and Warley.

The current archdeacon, since 2019, is Jenny Tomlinson.^[4]

List of archdeacons

• 1894–1903: Edmund Knox, Bishop suffragan of Coventry
• 1903–1904: John Diggle
• 1904–1912: Winfrid Burrows

The archdeaconry was transferred from the diocese of Worcester to the newly created diocese of Birmingham by Order-in-Council on 13 January 1905.^[2]

• 1912–1915: Mansfield Owen
• 1915–1944: Charles Hopton
• 1944–1947: Geoffrey Allen^[5]
• 1947–1967: Sidney Harvie-Clark
• 1967–1974: Vernon Nicholls
• 1974–1984: Gerald Hollis
• 1985–January 2001: John Duncan^[6]
• 2001 – 1 November 2018 (ret.): Hayward Osborne^[7]
• 1 December 2018 – 31 May 2019: Julian Francis (Acting)^[8][9]
• 12 May 2019 – present: Jenny Tomlinson^[10]