The Archdeacon of Hampstead is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of London, named after, and based in and around, the Hampstead area of London. They are the priest responsible for the Archdeaconry of Hampstead.
History The archdeaconry was created by Order in Council on 23 July 1912 from the ancient archdeaconries of MiddlesexThe National Archives – Diocese of London and of London; at its erection it consisted the rural deaneries of Enfield, of Holborn, and of Tottenham (from the London archdeaconry) and of Hampstead, of Hornsey, of St Marylebone, of St Pancras, and of Willesden (from the Middlesex archdeaconry). Part of the archdeaconry was split off to create the Charing Cross archdeaconry before 1989. The Hampstead archdeaconry is geographically equivalent to the episcopal area overseen by the area Bishop of Edmonton.
List of archdeacons 1912–1920 (ret.): Brook Deedes 1920–1950 (ret.): Charles Lambert (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 1950–1962 (ret.): Hubert Matthews (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 1962–1964 (res.): Graham Leonard (afterwards Bishop suffragan of Willesden) 1964–1974 (ret.): Hubert PinkThe National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church Throughout England and Wales (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 1974–1984 (ret.): Fred Pickering (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 1985–1994 (ret.): Robert Coogan (afterwards archdeacon emeritus) 1995–1999 (res.): Peter Wheatley (afterwards area Bishop of Edmonton) 1999–2010 (res.): Michael Lawson (since archdeacon emeritus)Church of England Evangelical Council correspondence: 1 2 2011–31 July 2015 (res.): Luke Miller (currently Archdeacon of London) 2015–present: John HawkinsDiocese of London — New bishops and archdeacon installed at St Paul’s Cathedral (Accessed 11 October 2015)
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