The Archdeacon of Shetland was the head of the Archdeaconry of Shetland, a sub-division of the Diocese of Orkney in Scotland This archdeacon was one of the two archdeacons of the diocese, the other being the Archdeacon of Orkney. Next to the bishop, the Archdeacon of Shetland was the senior ecclesiastic in the diocese.
List of known archdeacons of Shetland Andrew, 1215 Nicholas, 1226 Gilbert, 1260-1263 (later Bishop of Hamar) Peter, 1269-1270 Sigurd, 1295 William Johnson, 1360 William Wood, x 1372 William de Buchan, 1369 x 1372-1372 x 1383 John Fule, 1372 Walter de Buchan, 1383-1391 Adam Easton, 1381 x 1385-1391 x 1396 William de Lance, 1383 Angus de Kirkness (Kerlues, Birknes), 1396-1429 x 1430 David de Craigie (Cragy), 1420 Malise de Tulloch, 1430-1445 David Tulloch, 1457 Thomas Tulloch, 1457 John Sinclair, 1484-1484 x 1501Became Bishop of Caithness. James Sinclair, 1484 William Turnbull, 1485-1487 Henry Phankouth, 1501–1529. Mawnys Herwood, 1502 Malcolm Halcro, 1529-1554 Thomas Cheyne, 1572, 1584-1586 William Hay, 1584-1628 Alexander Cheyne, 1592 John Mitchell, 1629
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Bibliography Watt, D.E.R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd edition, (St Andrews, 1969), pp. 261–3 Smith, Brian, Archdeacons of Shetland 1195–1567, in Ecclesia Nidrosiensis 1153-1537, (Trondheim 2003)