This is a list of the Archdeacon

Archdeacon

An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, Chaldean Catholic, and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church...

s of Coventry, a post historically in the Diocese of Lichfield

Diocese of Lichfield

The Diocese of Lichfield is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury, England. The bishop's seat is located in the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Chad in the city of Lichfield. The diocese covers 4,516 km² The Diocese of Lichfield is a Church of England...

. From 1837, the archdeaconry was in the Diocese of Worcester

Anglican Diocese of Worcester

The Diocese of Worcester forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England.The diocese was founded in around 679 by St Theodore of Canterbury at Worcester to minister to the kingdom of the Hwicce, one of the many Anglo Saxon petty-kingdoms of that time...

, and since 1918 it has been in the Diocese of Coventry

Diocese of Coventry

The Diocese of Coventry is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury. It is headed by the Bishop of Coventry, who sits at Coventry Cathedral in Coventry, and is assisted by one suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Warwick. The diocese covers Coventry and Warwickshire.The diocese is...

. Since 2009, the archdeacon of Coventry has also had statutory oversight over the Archdeaconry of Warwick, delegated from the Archdeacon Missioner, in preparation for the merging of the two archdeaconries.

• bef. 1140–1161: Richard Peche
  Richard Peche
  Richard Peche was a medieval Bishop of Coventry.Peche was probably the son of Robert Peche who was Bishop of Coventry from 1121 to 1128. He was definitely the son of a priest, as Ralph de Diceto wrote about him and justified the elevation of a son of priest to the episcopacy...
  
  
• ?–: Lawrence of St Martin
  Lawrence of St Martin
  Lawrence of St Martin was a medieval Bishop of Rochester.-Life:Lawrence was a royal clerk and held prebends in the dioceses of Chichester and Salisbury. He was also archdeacon of the diocese of Coventry....
  
  
• 1247–?: William of Kilkenny
  William of Kilkenny
  William of Kilkenny was a Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Ely.-Life:William may be the same William of Kilkenny who was elected Bishop of Ossory in 1231, but resigned the office in 1232 before being consecrated. Whether that William is the same William that later became Bishop of Ely, the...
  
  
• ?–bef. 1286: John Kirkby
  John Kirkby
  John Kirkby was an English ecclesiastic and statesman.-Life:Kirkby first appears in the historical record in the chancery during the reign of King Henry III of England...
  
  
• 1488–1505: Thomas Mills
• bef. 1509: George Strangeways
• ?–1512: Ralph Colyngwood
• 1512–1558: John Blythe
• 1560–1577: Thomas Lever
  Thomas Lever
  Thomas Lever was an English Protestant reformer and Marian exile, one of the founders of the Puritan tendency in the Church of England.-Life:...
  
  
• 1577–1584: William James
• 1584–1631: William Hinton
• 1631: Samuel Brooke
  Samuel Brooke
  Dr Samuel Brooke was a Gresham Professor of Divinity , a playwright, the chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge and subsequently the Master of Trinity . He was known to be an Arminian and anti-Calvinist...
  
  
• 1631–1642: Ralph Brownrigg
  Ralph Brownrigg
  Ralph Brownrigg or Brownrig was bishop of Exeter from 1642 to 1659. He spent that time largely in exile from his see, which he perhaps never visited. He did find a position there for Seth Ward. He was both a Royalist in politics, and a Calvinist in religion, an unusual combination of the period...
  
  
• 1642–1661: Francis Walsall
• 1661–1673: John Riland
• 1673–1684: George Downing
• 1684–1703: Lancelot Addison
  Lancelot Addison
  Reverend Lancelot Addison was born at Crosby Ravensworth in Westmorland. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford.Rev...
  
  
• 1703–1708: Richard Davies
• 1708–1741: William Wilson
• 1741–1778: Thomas Smallbrook
• 1778–1793: Norman Fotheringham
• 1793–1816: William Vyse
• 1816–1827: Charles Buckeridge
• 1827–1851: William Spooner
• 1851–1873: John Sandford
• 1927–1935: Joseph Hunkin
• ?–: Richard Brook
  Richard Brook (bishop)
  The Rt Rev Richard Brook, DD, MA was an eminent Anglican Bishop in the middle of the 20th century. He was born in 1880 and educated at Bradford Grammar School and Lincoln College, Oxford and ordained in 1905. He was a Fellow and Tutor at Merton College from 1906 to 1919 then Headmaster of...
  
  
• 2001–2007: Mark Bryant
• January 2008–present: Ian Watson