List of Archdeacons of Cardigan

This is a list of archdeacons of Cardigan. The Archdeacon of Cardigan is the priest in charge of the archdeaconry of Cardigan, an administrative division of the Church in Wales Diocese of St Davids. The archdeaconry comprises the five deaneries of Cemaes/sub-Aeron, Emlyn, Glyn Aeron, Lampeter/Ultra-Aeron and Llanbadarn Fawr.[1]

• Cydifor[2]
• ?–1148 David fitzGerald[3][4] (afterwards Bishop of St David's, 1148)
• 1487-? Thomas ap Hywel
• ?-1542 John Luntley
• ?-1547 Hugh Matthew
• John Butler held it in 1551 and 1562.
• Edward Talley
• 1563 Peregrine Davids
• 1569-1584 Lewis Gwynn[5]
• 1592–1629 Richard Middleton
• 1629-1654 Thomas Brand[6]
• 1660–1668 Edward Vaughan[7]
• 1668–1681 William Owen
• 1681–? John Williams[7]
• 1701-1714 John Shore[7]
• 1714-1721 Owen Evans[7]
• 1721-1727 John Parry[7]
• 1727-1739 Edward Welchman
• 1739-1769 Edward Yardley[8][9]
• 1770-1798 Thomas Vincent[7]
• 1798-1814 John Williams[7]
• 1814-1833 Thomas Beynon (Archdeacon of Cardigan)[10]
• 1833-?1858 John Williams[11] (died 1858)
• 1859-?1860 John Hughes[12] (died 1860)
• 1860-?1893 William North[13]
• 1893–1903 James Protheroe[14]
• 1903–1928 David Williams[15]
• 1928–1936 David Williams
• 1936–1944 David Thomas
• 1944–1951 Aldred Williams
• 1951–1962 Richard Ward
• 1962–1967 Owen Jenkins (afterwards Archdeacon of Carmarthen, 1967)
• 1967–1979 Eifion Evans
• 1979-1982 George Noakes[16] (afterwards Bishop of St David's, 1982)
• 1982-1986 Sam Jones
• 1986–1990 Bertie Lewis (afterwards Dean of St David's, 1990)
• 1990-2006 Hywel Jones
• 2006-2008 Andrew John (afterwards Bishop of Bangor, 2008)
• 2008–2019 William Strange[17]
• 2019–present Eileen Davies[18]

Sources

• Jones, B., ed. (1965), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, 11, pp. 62–63
• Hardy, Thomas Duffus, ed. (1854), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1854, 1, pp. 313, 314, 315

References

1. "Cardigan Archdeaconry (DG) - In the diocese of: St Davids - Deaneries in this archdeaconry". The Church in Wales. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
2. https://biography.wales/article/s-SULI-EN0-1011
3. https://biography.wales/article/s-FITZ-DAV-1176
4. Burke, Bernard, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), p. 204
5. "Lewis Gwyn (GWN555L)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
6. "Thomas Brand (BRNT613T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
7. Location: Diocesan Office: Archdeacon of Cardigan in "CCEd, the Clergy of the Church of England database" (Accessed online, 6 October 2017)
9. "Edward Yardley (YRDY714E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
13. Walks and Wanderings in County Cardigan

External links

• Church in Wales page