{{Short description|Ecclesiastical title in the Church of England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=July 2025}} The '''Archdeacon of Horsham''' is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Chichester. The diocese almost exactly covers the counties of East and West Sussex and the City of Brighton and Hove, stretching for nearly a hundred miles (160 km) along the south coast of England.<ref name="diochi">{{Cite web|url=http://www.diochi.org.uk/|publisher= Diocese of Chichester|title=Chichester Diocese Website|access-date=17 January 2011}}</ref>
==History== The diocese originally had two archdeaconries created in the 12th century, namely that of Chichester and that of Lewes; a third archdeaconry was created in 1912 at Hastings.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hennessy|first=George|year=1900|title=Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists: Clergy Succession from the earliest time to the year 1900|publisher=St Peters Press|location=London}} pp.2-3</ref><ref name="wsro7">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=182-ep_1-1_2&cid=0#0|publisher=National Archives|title=West Sussex Records Office: Diocese of Chichester: Episcopal Records |access-date=17 January 2011}} VII</ref> The archdeaconries were then reorganised under Eric Kemp (Bishop of Chichester) on 28 June 1975<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=46633 |date=15 July 1975 |page=9015 |supp=y }}</ref> with the Archdeaconry of Lewes being merged with that of Hastings and a new archdeaconry at Horsham being created.<ref name="diochi" /><ref name="kemp186">{{Cite book|author=Kemp, Eric|year=2006|title=Shy but not Retiring: the memoirs of Eric Kemp|others= Jeremy Haselock |publisher=Continuum|location=London|page=186|isbn= 978-0-8264-8073-6}}</ref>
On 12 May 2014, it was announced that the diocese was to take forward proposals to create a fourth archdeaconry (initially referred to as Brighton.)<ref>[http://www.chichester.anglican.org/news/2014/05/12/announcement-fourth-archdeaconry-diocese-chichester/ Diocese of Chichester – Announcement of a Fourth Archdeaconry for the Diocese of Chichester] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514175303/http://www.chichester.anglican.org/news/2014/05/12/announcement-fourth-archdeaconry-diocese-chichester/|url-status=dead |date=14 May 2014 }} (Accessed 14 May 2014)</ref> Since Lewes itself would be within the new archdeaconry, Lewes & Hastings archdeaconry would become simply Hastings archdeaconry.<ref>[http://www.chichester.anglican.org/media/documents/document/2013/11/Statement_of_needs_1st_Final_2.pdf Diocese of Chichester – Suffragan Bishop of Lewes: Statement of Needs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514172036/http://www.chichester.anglican.org/media/documents/document/2013/11/Statement_of_needs_1st_Final_2.pdf |date=2014-05-14 }} p. 7 (Accessed 14 May 2014)</ref> On 8 August 2014, the ''Church Times'' reported that the archdeaconry of Brighton & Lewes had been created and Hastings archdeaconry renamed.<ref name="ct7899">{{Church Times | title = Appointments | url = http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2014/8-august/gazette/appointments/appointments | issue = 7899 | date = 8 August 2014 | page = 24 | accessed = 8 August 2014 }}</ref>
Today the Bishop of Chichester is assisted by the suffragan bishops of Horsham and Lewes. There is one archdeacon for Chichester, one for Horsham, one for Brighton & Lewes and one for the Hastings archdeaconry.<ref name="diochi" /> The Bishop of Horsham oversees the archdeaconries of Chichester and Horsham, while the Bishop of Lewes oversees the archdeaconries of Brighton & Lewes and Hastings.
==List of archdeacons== *1975–1983 (res.): Frederick Kerr-Dineen<ref>{{Who's Who | title=Kerr-Dineen, Frederick George | id = U166004 | type = was | volume = 1920–2008 | edition = December 2012 online | access-date = 4 June 2013 }}</ref> *1983–2002 (ret.): William Filby (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)<ref>{{Who's Who | title=Filby, William Charles Leonard | id = U15725 | type = was | volume = 1920–2008 | edition = December 2012 online | access-date = 4 June 2013 }}</ref> *2003–30 June 2014 (ret.): Roger Combes<ref>{{Who's Who | title=Combes, Roger Matthew | id = U43678 | volume = 2013 | edition = December 2012 online | access-date = 4 June 2013 }}</ref> *21 September 2014{{snd}}June 2020 (ret.): Fiona Windsor<ref>[http://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/news/the-licencing-of-the-archdeacon-of-horsham-and-the-commissioning-of-anne-holt-as-diocesan-director-of-education-posted-19-september-2014.shtml Chichester Cathedral – Licencing of the Archdeacon of Horsham] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204164547/http://www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/news/the-licencing-of-the-archdeacon-of-horsham-and-the-commissioning-of-anne-holt-as-diocesan-director-of-education-posted-19-september-2014.shtml |date=2014-12-04 }} (Accessed 28 November 2014)</ref> *March 2020{{snd}}2021: Julia Peaty & Derek Welsman, Acting Archdeacons<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chichester.anglican.org/glitter_news/2020/03/10/archdeacon-steps-down-health-grounds/|title=Archdeacon steps down on health grounds - Diocese of Chichester}}</ref> *1 March 2021{{snd}}Angela Martin, Acting Archdeacon<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chichester.anglican.org/glitter_news/2021/03/04/acting-archdeacon-licensed/|title = Angela Martin licensed as Acting Archdeacon - Diocese of Chichester}}</ref>
*4 July 2021{{snd}}present: Angela Martin<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chichester.anglican.org/glitter_news/2021/07/06/new-archdeacon-horsham/|title = The new Archdeacon of Horsham - Diocese of Chichester}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} {{Archdeacons of Horsham}} {{Diocese of Chichester}} {{Archdeacons in the Church of England}}
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