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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) but became part of the new Diocese of Birmingham upon its creation by Order-in-Council on 13 January 1905.

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

The current archdeacon, since 2019, is Jenny Tomlinson.

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.

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

References

1. "No. 26316". The London Gazette. 12 August 1892. pp. 4569–4582.
2. ^ "No. 27754". The London Gazette. 13 January 1905. pp. 311–312.
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