The Archdeacon of Birmingham is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Birmingham.
The archdeaconry was created within the Diocese of Worcester by Order-in-Council on 12 August 1892 (substantially from the Archdeaconry of Coventry but also from a small part of the Worcester archdeaconry) but became part of the new Diocese of Birmingham upon its creation by Order-in-Council on 13 January 1905.
The Archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy"ABCD: a basic church dictionary" Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 within the archdeaconry's six deaneries: Edgbaston; Handsworth and Central; Kings Norton; Moseley; Shirley; and Warley.
The current archdeacon, since 2019, is Jenny Tomlinson.
List of archdeacons 1894–1903: Edmund Knox, Bishop suffragan of Coventry 1903–1904: John Diggle 1904–1912: Winfrid Burrows The archdeaconry was transferred from the diocese of Worcester to the newly created diocese of Birmingham by Order-in-Council on 13 January 1905. 1912–1915: Mansfield Owen 1915–1944: Charles Hopton 1944–1947: Geoffrey Allen 1947–1967: Sidney Harvie-Clark 1967–1974: Vernon Nicholls 1974–1984: Gerald Hollis 1985–January 2001: John DuncanBirmingham Post – Archdeacon to retire after 40 years of service 20011 November 2018 (ret.): Hayward Osborne 1 December 201831 May 2019: Julian Francis (Acting) 12 May 2019present: Jenny Tomlinsonhttp://www.cofebirmingham.com/news/2019/02/10/jenny-tomlinson-announced-new-archdeacon-birmingham/ &
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