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The Archdeacon of Maidstone is an office-holder in the Diocese of Canterbury (one of the dioceses of the Province of Canterbury in the Church of England). The Archdeacon of Maidstone is an Anglican priest who oversees the Archdeaconry of Maidstone, which is one of three subdivisions of the diocese.

The archdeaconry was created from the ancient Archdeaconry of Canterbury by Order in Council on 4 June 1841.

As of 2022, the current archdeacon is Andrew Sewell.

Composition

The archdeaconry covers approximately the north-west and south-west corners of the diocese. As of 2012, the archdeaconry of Maidstone consists the following deaneries in the Diocese of Canterbury:

Deanery of Maidstone
Deanery of North Downs
Deanery of Ospringe
Deanery of Sittingbourne
Deanery of the Weald

List of archdeacons

4 June 1841 – 1845 (res.): William Lyall
4 December 1845 – 25 March 1887 (d.): Benjamin Harrison
1887–26 March 1900 (d.): Benjamin Smith
1900–1921 (ret.): Henry Spooner
1921–1934 (res.): John Macmillan (also Bishop suffragan of Dover from 1927)
1934–1939 (res.): Karl Sopwith
1939–1942 (res.): Alexander Sargent
1942–1958 (ret.): Julian Bickersteth
1959–1965 (res.): Gordon Strutt
1965–1968 (res.): Michael Nott
1968–1972 (res.): Thomas Prichard
1972–1979 (ret.): Niel Nye (later archdeacon emeritus)
1979–1989 (res.): Michael Percival Smith
1989–2002 (res.): Patrick Evans
2002–13 March 2011 (res.): Philip Down
18 September 2011 – 27 September 2020 (res.): Stephen Taylor (on leave 2019–2020; became an Archdeacon without territory and Senior Chaplain to the Bishop of Dover, 2020–2022; Diocesan Secretary 2022–2024, acting since 2021)
27 September 2020 – present: Andrew Sewell (previously Acting, 30 November 2019 – 31 May 2020)

Andrew William Sewell. Born in 1961, Sewell was educated at the University of Nottingham, and St John’s College, Nottingham. He was ordained deacon in 1993, and priest in 1994. He served in parishes in the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds until 1998 when he was appointed Priest in Charge of Otham with Langley in Kent, becoming the Rector in 2001. He was Vicar of St Paul’s Maidstone from 2010 to 2020 and an Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral from 2011. Sewell has announced his intention to retire effective 18 January 2025.

References

"No. 19985". The London Gazette. 4 June 1841. pp. 1433–1434.
Clergy List, 1897
"Smith, Ven. Benjamin Frederick". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 18 December 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Crockford's 1929, p. 1214.
"Spooner, Rev. Henry Maxwell". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2007 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 18 December 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Crockford's 1929, p. 364.
"Macmillan, John Victor". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 18 December 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Sopwith, Thomas Karl". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 18 December 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Sargent, Alexander". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 18 December 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Bickersteth, John. "Bickersteth, (Kenneth) Julian Faithfull". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74205. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"The Julian Bickersteth Memorial Medal". IHGS. 16 October 1962. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
Canterbury Cathedral Archives CCA-DCc-MAND/RC/1959/1
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"St Mary Magdalene | Detailed History". Stmmm.org.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
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"Strutt, Rupert Gordon". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 18 December 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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"Prichard, Thomas Estlin". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 18 December 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Crockford's Clerical Directory, 2010–2011
"The Ven Niel Nye". Telegraph. 25 January 2003. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
"Nye, Nathaniel Kemp". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2007 (December 2012 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 18 December 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Percival Smith, (Anthony) Michael". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 18 December 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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"Evans, Patrick Alexander Sidney". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 18 December 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
"Down, Philip Roy". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 18 December 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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"Appointments".
^ "The Ven Andrew William SEWELL". www.crockford.org.uk.
"Archdeacon Andrew Sewell announces his intention to retire in January 2025". Diocese of Canterbury. 7 November 2024. Archived from the original on 25 November 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2024.

Sources

Horn, Joyce M. (1974), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 3, p. 17

v t e Archdeacons of Maidstone
William Lyall Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Smith Henry Spooner John Macmillan Karl Sopwith Alexander Sargent Julian Bickersteth Gordon Strutt Michael Nott Thomas Prichard Niel Nye Michael Percival Smith Patrick Evans Philip Down Stephen Taylor Andrew Sewell

v t e Diocese of Canterbury
Canterbury Cathedral The Old Palace, Canterbury Diocesan House, Canterbury
Office holders	Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Bishop suffragan of Dover (pseudo-diocesan) AEO: the Bishop suffragan of Richborough & the Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet David Monteith, Dean of Canterbury Will Adam, Archdeacon of Canterbury Darren Miller, Archdeacon of Ashford Andrew Sewell, Archdeacon of Maidstone
Provincial episcopal visitors	Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Luke Irvine-Capel, Bishop suffragan designate of Richborough
Selected deaneries	Elham Deanery Romney Deanery
Historic offices	Bishop suffragan of Croydon (1904–1985; transferred to Southwark) Bishop suffragan of Maidstone (1944–2009) Archdeacon of Croydon (1930–1985; transferred to Southwark)

Archdeacons in the Church of England

Current

northern province	Auckland Blackburn Bolton Bradford Carlisle Chester Cleveland Doncaster Durham East Riding (York) Halifax Lancaster Leeds Lindisfarne Liverpool Knowsley and Sefton Macclesfield Man Manchester Newark Nottingham Northumberland Pontefract Richmond and Craven Rochdale St Helens and Warrington Salford Sheffield and Rotherham Stoke Sunderland Walsall West Cumberland Westmorland and Furness York (West Riding)
southern province	Ashford Aston Barnstaple Barking Bath Bedford Berkshire Birmingham Bodmin Boston Bournemouth Brighton & Lewes Bristol Bromley & Bexley Buckingham Cambridge Canterbury Chelmsford Charing Cross ("Two Cities") Cheltenham Chichester Colchester Cornwall Coventry ("Archdeacon Pastor") Croydon Derby City and South Derbyshire Derbyshire Peak and Dales Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley East Derbyshire Eastern Archdeaconry (Europe) Exeter France Germany and Northern Europe Gibraltar Gloucester Hackney Hampstead Hastings Hereford Hertford Horsham Huntingdon and Wisbech Ipswich Isle of Wight Italy and Malta Lambeth Leicester Lewisham & Greenwich Lichfield Lincoln London Loughborough Ludlow Lynn Maidstone Malmesbury The Meon Middlesex Norfolk North West Europe Northampton Northolt Norwich Oakham Oxford Plymouth Portsdown Reigate Rochester St Albans Salop/Shropshire (Lichfield diocese) Sarum Sherborne Southend Southwark Stansted Stow and Lindsey Sudbury Suffolk Surrey Switzerland Taunton Tonbridge Totnes Wandsworth Warwick ("Archdeacon Missioner") Wells West Ham Westminster Wilts Winchester Worcester
non-territorial	Military archdeacons: Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force Prison Service "Archdeacon Missioner" (see Warwick) & "Archdeacon Pastor" (see Coventry) Rural Mission (Eds & Ips diocese)

Former

England

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