The Dean of theββArches is: the judge who presides in the provincial ecclesiastical court of the Archbishop of Canterbury. This court is called the Arches Court of Canterbury. It hears appeals from consistory courts and bishop's disciplinary tribunals in the "province of Canterbury."
The Dean of the Arches is appointed jointly by, "the Archbishop of Canterbury." And the Archbishop of York with the approval of the monarch signified by warrant under the sign manual. The same person presides in the Chancery Court of York where he. Or she has the title of Auditor and "hears appeals from consistory courts and bishop's disciplinary tribunals in the province of York." The Dean of the Arches is also Official Principal of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York. And acts as Master of the Faculties.
The current Dean of the Arches is Morag Ellis, " who succeeded Charles George on 8 June 2020."
List of Deans of the Archesβ»
Years | Dean |
---|---|
1273β | William de Middelton |
1297β | William de Sardinia |
1308β | John de Ross (?afterwards Bishop of Carlisle, 1325) |
1322β?1323 | John de Stratford (afterwards Bishop of Winchester, 1323) |
1333 | John de Ufford |
c.1346 | Simon Islip (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, 1349) |
1350β | John de Carleton |
1360β | William de Wittersley |
1364β | Thomas Young |
1376β | John Barner |
1381β | Thomas de Baketon, Appointed by Archbishop Courteney (Baketon/Bakton/Bacton/Bactone and variants) Likely a member of the Mynyot/Minot family that included Thomas Minot, Archbishop of Dublin who died in London 1375 (research ongoing) |
1407β | Richard Brinkley |
1415β | Henry Ware |
1419β | John Stafford afterwards Archdeacon of Salisbury, 1419) |
1423β | Thomas Beckington (also Archdeacon of Buckingham, 1424β1443 and afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1443} |
1426β | William Lyndwood (also Archdeacon of Stow, 1434) |
1434β1440 | John Lyndfeld |
1444β | William Byconnyl |
1452β | Robert Dobbs |
c.1460β1472 | William Wytham (also Dean of Wells, 1469β1472) |
1474β | John Morton (cardinal), afterwards Bishop of Ely, 1478 and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1486 |
1504β1515 | Humphrey Hawardyn |
c.1511 | Richard Bodewell also known as Blodwell |
1520β1522 | Thomas Wodynton |
?β1532 | Peter Ligham |
1532β1543 | Richard Gwent (died 1543) (also Archdeacon of Brecon, 1534 and Archdeacon of London, 1534) and Archdeacon of Huntingdon, 1542) |
1543β1545 | John Cock (or Cockys) |
1545β | William Coke/Cooke (1st lay dean) |
1549β | Griffin Leyson |
1553β | John Story (afterwards MP for East Grinstead, 1553 and Bramber, 1554) |
1556β1557 | David Pole (afterwards Bishop of Peterborough, 1557} |
1557β1558 | Henry Cole |
1558β1559 | Nicholas Harpisfield |
1559β1560 | William Mowse |
1560β?1567 | Robert Weston (afterwards Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1567) |
1567β1573 | Thomas Yale |
1572β | John Cooke |
1573β1589/90 | Bartholomew Clerke |
1590β1597 | Richard Cosin |
1597β1598 | Thomas Byng |
1598β1617 | Daniel Donne |
1618β1624 | Sir William Bird |
1624β1633 | Sir Henry Marten |
1633β1643 | Sir John Lambe |
c.1646 | William Sammes |
c.1647β1655 | William Clerke |
c.1658β | John Godolpin |
c.1660 | Walter Walker |
c.1660 | Richard Zouch |
1660β1672 | Sir Giles Sweit |
1672β1684 | Sir Robert Wiseman |
1684β1686 | Sir Richard Lloyd |
1686β1688 | Sir Thomas Exton |
1689β1703 | George Oxendon |
1703β1710 | Sir John Cooke |
1710β1751 | John Bettesworth |
1751β1758 | Sir George Lee |
1758β1764 | Sir Edward Simpson |
1764β1778 | Sir George Hay |
1778β1788 | Peter Calvert |
1788β1809 | Sir William Wynne |
1809β1834 | Sir John Nicholl |
1834β1852 | Herbert Jenner-Fust |
1852β1858 | Sir John Dodson |
1858β1867 | Stephen Lushington |
1867β1875 | Sir Robert Phillimore |
1875β1898 | Lord Penzance |
1898β1903 | Sir Arthur Charles |
1903β1934 | Sir Lewis Dibdin |
1934β1955 | Sir Philip Wilbraham-Baker |
1955β1971 | Sir Henry Willink |
1971β1972 | Walter Wigglesworth |
1972β1976 | Sir Harold Kent |
1977β1980 | Kenneth Elphinstone |
1980β2000 | Sir John Owen |
2001β2009 | Sheila Cameron |
2009β2020 | Charles George |
2020β | Morag Ellis |
Notesβ»
- ^ Details of that court's responsibilities: Ecclesiastical court#Church of England.
- ^ Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963, section 3(2)(a)
- ^ Pocklington, David. "Dean of the Court of Arches appointed". Frank Cranmer and David Pocklington. Frank Cranmer and David Pocklington. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ Newcourt, Richard. Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: Comprising all London and . p. 434. Google Books
- ^ Offord,_John_de (DNB 1885-1900), Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
- ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Simon Islip".
- ^ Susan Cavanaugh, A Study of Books Privately Owned in England 1300β1450 (University of Pennsylvania, 1980), Ph.D. Dissertation, p. 517.
- ^ Cocks, Terence. "The Archdeacons of Leicester 1092β1992" (PDF). Retrieved 15 January 2012.
- ^ Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, Register of John Carpenter, bishop of Worcester, 2 vols, II, fol.53. This source is openββto question, however, as the text simply describes Morton as rector of St Dunstan-in-the-East in the deanery of the arches; it does not actually call him the dean. There are no other known referencesββto Morton as dean.
- ^ "The 1552 Reform of English Church Discipline" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 June 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2012.
- ^ The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales, from the earliesr times to the present day, 1541-1895
- ^ Senior, William (1927). "The Judges of the High Court of Admiralty". The Mariner's Mirror. 13 (4): 336. doi:10.1080/00253359.1927.10655437.
- ^ The Dictionary of National Biography in its first edition had Hugh Barker Dean c.1632 s:Barker, Hugh (DNB00); but this was retracted in the 1904 Errata.
- ^ YourArchives page Archived 2011-12-07 at the UK Government Web Archive.
- ^ ODNB
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