Archdeacon of Suffolk

High Medieval

From its erection, the archdeaconry was in Norwich diocese. For archdeacons of that diocese before territorial titles began, see Archdeacon of Norwich.

• bef. 1119–aft. 1135: Roger de Beaufeu
• bef. 1143–aft. 1186: Walkelin
• bef. 1193–aft. 1210: Geoffrey (also called Archdeacon of Ipswich)
• bef. 1214–aft. 1235: Robert de Tywa (also called Archdeacon of Ipswich)
• bef. 1240–aft. 1241: Alexander de Walpole
• 1242–aft. 1246: Roger Pincerna alias Le Boteler
• bef. 1249–aft. 1251: William de Horham
• bef. 1257–aft. 1258: William de Dunton
• bef. 1262–aft. 1267: John of Alvechurch
• ?–1282 (d.): Thomas Lenebaud
• bef. 1291–1296 (res.): Thomas de Skerning (became Archdeacon of Surrey)
• bef. 1298–bef. 1311: Sayerus (or Sacrus or Saer)

Late Medieval

• 10 January 1311–bef. 1324 (res.): Simon de Ely
• 28 March–April 1324 (res.): Alan de Ely
• 16 April 1224–bef. 1231 (res.): William de Knapton
• 31 March 1331–bef. 1347 (d.): John de Fenton
• 3–27 May 1347 (deprived): Richard Lyng (deprived)
• 27 May 1347–June 1353 (exch.): Michael Northburgh (later Bishop of London)
• June 1353–bef. 1357 (d.): William de Fieschi or de Flisco
• 1357 (d.): Francis de St Maximo
• 1357–bef. 1359 (res.): Hélie Cardinal de Talleyrand-Périgord (Cardinal Bishop of Albano)
• 5 June 1359–bef. 1363: John de Carleton (displaced)
• bef. 1363–21 July 1365 (exch.): William Graa de Trusthope
• 21 July 1365–bef. 1367 (d.): Carleton (again)
• 16 January 1367 – 20 January 1368 (deprived): John de Ufford (deprived)
• 20 January 1368–bef. 1373 (d.): John Aleyn
• 10 December 1373 – 1381 (deprived): John Clervaus
• bef. 1374–?: Guillaume Cardinal Noellet (Cardinal-deacon of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria)
• ?–25 August 1380 (d.): Eleazario Cardinal de Sabrano (Cardinal-priest of Santa Balbina)
• 4 August 1380 – 1381: Philippe Cardinal Valois d'Alençon (Cardinal Bishop of Sabina)
• bef. 1382–bef. 1383 (d.): John Clervaus (regained possession)
• 2 September–October/November 1383 (deprived): William de Malebys
• 1 April 1384–bef. 1387: Thomas de Shirford
• 28 May–8 July 1387 (exch.): Henry Sturdy
• 8 July 1387 – 1 July 1390 (exch.): Robert Foulmere
• 1 July 1390–bef. 1421 (d.): John Thorpe
• 10 November 1421–bef. 1441 (d.): John Franks
• ?–1448 (res.): Richard Beauchamp (became Bishop of Hereford)
• 14 March 1449–bef. 1472 (d.): Henry Trevilian
• 2 March 1472–April 1497 (d.): William Pykenham^[2]
• 20 April 1487 – 1505 (d.): Nicholas Goldwell
• ?–bef. 1526 (res.): John Dolman

• 12 November 1526 – 1528: Thomas Wynter^[3] (also Dean of Wells, Archdeacon of York and Archdeacon of Richmond; became Archdeacon of Norfolk)
• 1524-1526, 1528-1529 (res.): Edmund Steward
• 11 January 1529 – 1536 (res.): Richard Sampson^[4] (became Bishop of Chichester)
• 1 November 1536 – 1539 (res.): John Skypp (became Bishop of Hereford)
• 27 August 1540–bef. 1542: William Ryvell

Early modern

• 8 February 1542–bef. 1548 (d.): Elizeus Ferreys
• 20 August 1548–bef. 1559 (d.): Robert Rugge
• 17 April 1559 – 1576 (deprived): Nicholas Wendon (fled overseas and deprived)^[5]
• 10 November 1576 – 1613 (d.): John Maplesden
• 6 October 1613–bef. 1640 (d.): Robert Pearson
• 1 February–November 1640 (d.): Robert Bostock
• 27 November 1640–bef. 1660 (deprived): Richard Mileson (deprived)
• 18 September 1660 – 1683 (res.): Laurence Womack (became Bishop of St David's)
• 3 January 1684–bef. 1687 (d.): Godfrey King
• 1 October 1687–bef. 1688 (res.): John Battely (became Archdeacon of Canterbury)
• 20 December 1688 – 1 November 1724 (d.): Humphrey Prideaux (also Dean of Norwich from 1702)
• 19 December 1724 – 6 September 1745 (d.): David Wilkins
• 19 September 1745 – 5 January 1748 (d.): Richard Warren
• 19 February 1748 – 23 February 1781 (d.): Henry Goodall
• 5 March 1781 – 17 December 1818 (d.): John Strachey
• 27 February 1819–bef. 1846 (res.): Henry Berners
• 12 January 1846–bef. 1868 (res.): Thomas Ormerod

Late modern

• May 1868^[6]–March 1869 (res.):^[7] Vincent Ryan, assistant bishop (later Archdeacon of Craven)
• March 1869^[7]–1887 (res.): Robert Groome, Rector of Monk Soham
• 1887–22 April 1892 (d.): Joseph Woolley, Rector of East Bergholt^[8]
• May 1892^[9]–1901 (res.):^[10] Richard Gibson, Rector of Lound
• 1901^[11]–1917 (ret.):^[12] Charles Lawrence
• February 1917^[13]–14 September 1919 (d.):^[14] William Everingham
• 1919–24 July 1938 (d.):^[15] James Darling, Rector of Eyke &c.
• 1938–1947 (ret.):^[16] Thomas Wonnacott, Rector of Stonham Aspal (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)
• 1947^[17]–September 1961 (ret.):^[18] Christopher George, Rector of Sproughton (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)
• 1962–1970 (ret.): Claud Scott, Vicar of Hoxne &c. (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[19]
• 1970–1975 (res.): Peter Hartley, Rector of Badingham &c. (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[20]
• 1975–1984 (res.): Donald Smith, Rector of Redgrave cum Botesdale &c. (until 1979; became Archdeacon of Sudbury)^[21]
• 1984–1987 (res.): Terry Gibson (became Archdeacon of Ipswich)^[22]
• 1987–30 March 1994 (ret.):^[23] Neil Robinson
• 1994–2009 (ret.): Geoffrey Arrand^[24] (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[25]
• 2009–2012 (res.): Judy Hunt^[26]
• 6 September 2012^[27] – 3 October 2019 (d.): Ian Morgan^[28]
• 18 January 2020 – 25 April 2023 (ret.): Jeanette Gosney (previously Acting since May 2019)^[29][30]
• 14 May 2023 – present: Rich Henderson^[31]