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The Archdeacon of Oakham is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Anglican Diocese of Peterborough. As such, they are responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within its six rural deaneries: Corby, Higham, Kettering, Oundle, Peterborough and Rutland.

The archdeaconry was created by splitting the Archdeaconry of Northampton on 29 June 1875; the archdeaconry has remained part of Peterborough diocese since its creation.

List of archdeacons

1875–1879 (res.): Lord Alwyne Compton (became Dean of Worcester)
1880–18 September 1906 (d.): Prideaux Lightfoot
1906–1918 (res.): Edward Moore
1918–1923 (res.): Walter Whittingham (became Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich)
1924–1934 (res.): Arthur Greaves (became Sub-Dean of Lincoln)
1934–1936 (res.): Frank Partridge (became Bishop of Portsmouth)
1936–1945 (ret.): Norman Lang, Assistant Bishop of Peterborough
1946–1966 (ret.): Norman Millard (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)
1967–1977 (ret.): Frank Towndrow (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)
1977–1999 (ret.): Bernard Fernyhough (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)
2000–2011 (ret.): David Painter (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)
25 February 2012 – 30 November 2021 (ret.): Gordon Steele (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)
6 February 2022 present: Alison Booker

References

Diocesan web site
"ABCD: a basic church dictionary" Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 ISBN 978-1-85311-420-5
Crockford's on line accessed Sunday 4 December 2011 19:43 GMT
"No. 24223". The London Gazette. 29 June 1875. pp. 3291–3293.
"Compton, Lord Alwyne". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Lightfoot, Reginald Prideaux". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Moore, Edward Marsham". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Whittingham, Walter Godfrey". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Greaves, Arthur Ivan". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Partridge, Frank". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Lang, Norman Macleod". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Millard, Ernest Norman". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Towndrow, Frank Noel". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Fernyhough, Bernard". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Painter, David Scott". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Peterborough Cathedral – Welcome Service for the new Archdeacon of Oakham Archived August 8, 2014, at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 1 August 2014)
"Steele, Gordon John". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 1 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Appointments and retirements (Section: April 2021)". Diocese of Peterborough. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
"Appointments and retirements (Section: October 2021)". Diocese of Peterborough. Archived from the original on 31 October 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.

v t e Archdeacons of Oakham
Lord Alwyne Compton Prideaux Lightfoot Edward Moore Walter Whittingham Arthur Greaves Frank Partridge Norman Lang Norman Millard Frank Towndrow Bernard Fernyhough David Painter Gordon Steele Alison Booker

v t e Diocese of Peterborough
Peterborough Cathedral Bishop's Lodging, The Palace, Peterborough The Palace, Peterborough
Office holders	Debbie Sellin, Bishop of Peterborough John Holbrook, Bishop of Brixworth AEO: Luke Irvine-Capel, Bishop suffragan designate of Richborough & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Chris Dalliston, Dean of Peterborough Richard Ormston, Archdeacon of Northampton Alison Booker, Archdeacon of Oakham
Historic offices	Bishop suffragan of Leicester (1888–1927; Diocese of Leicester erected) Archdeacon of Leicester (1837–1926; became Diocese of Leicester) Archdeacon of Loughborough (1921–1926; became Diocese of Leicester)

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 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 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)

Former

England

Archdeacons in the Diocese in Europe: The Aegean
Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
Europe
Italy
Malta
Northern France
the Riviera
Scandinavia
Scandinavia and Germany
South-Eastern Europe
Spain (or the Peninsula) and North Africa

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