Archdeacon of Ludlow

Until 1876, the archdeacons were known as Archdeacons of Shropshire (aka Salop).

High Medieval

• bef. 1086–aft. 1108: William^{[N 1]}
• bef. 1148–aft. 1148: Peter le Kauf
• bef. 1148–aft. 1144: Odo
• bef. 1163–14 August 1178 (d.): Walter Foliot
• bef. 1186–1219 (res.): Hugh Foliot
• bef. 1223–aft. 1219 (d.): Nicholas of Hampton/Wolverhampton
• bef. 1227–18 July 1240 (d.): Simon of Edenbridge
• August 1240: Peter of Aigueblanche (quickly elected bishop)
• bef. 1241–aft. 1243: John Foliot
• bef. 1253–aft. 1258 (deprived): James of Aigueblanche (deprived)
• bef. 1271–aft. 1271: Hervey of Boreham
• 17 April 1276–bef. 1287 (d.):
  Richard de Swinfield
• bef. 1277–1280: James of Aigueblanche (again)
• 1280–bef. 1287 (d.): Adam de Fileby
• 6 September 1287 – 1 August 1289 (res.): John de Bestan
• 20 October 1289 – 21 March 1293 (res.): John de Swinfield
• 21 March 1293 – 15 January 1300 (res.): Roger de Canterbury
• 27 January 1300–aft. 1303: Philip Talbot

Late Medieval

• bef. 1309–1318 (res.):
  John de Rosse
• 1318–aft. 1326: William (son of Thomas le Mercer of Rosse)
• 12 January 1333–bef. 1346: Richard de Sydenhale
• aft. 1346–1366 (exch.): Henry de Shipton
• 1366–11 September (or December) 1367 (exch.): William de Borstall
• 11 September (or December) 1367–aft. 1376: Richard Nowell
• bef. 1386–24 July 1410 (exch.): John Hore
• 24 July 1410–bef. 1410 (d.): John Wells
• 27 October 1410 – 5 (or 31) May 1417 (exch.): John Hereford (afterwards Archdeacon of Hereford)
• 5 (or 31) May 1417 – 21 July 1422 (exch.): John Loveney (previously Archdeacon of Hereford)
• 21 July 1422–bef. 1425: John Merbury
• 7 April 1425–bef. 1441 (d.): William Laches
• 28 June 1441 – 24 March 1472 (exch.): Thomas Yone
• 24 March 1472–bef. 1485 (res.):
  Robert Geffrey/Jeffry
  (afterwards Archdeacon of Hereford)
• bef. 1485–c. 1500 (res.): Thomas Morton (afterwards Archdeacon of Hereford)
• c. 1500–bef. 1504 (d.): John Martyn
• 31 October 1504 – 1511 (res.): William Webb/Webbe (afterwards Archdeacon of Hereford)
• 29 July 1511–bef. 1512: Arthur Stafford
• bef. 1512–bef. 1515 (d.): John Wardroper
• 27 July 1515–bef. 1516 (d.): William Goberd
• 3 March 1516–bef. 1524 (d.): Henry Martyn
• 28 January 1524–bef. 1537 (res.): Humphrey Ogle
• 14 August 1537 – 1557 (res.): Richard Sparcheford

Early modern

• 23 December 1560–bef. 1561: Nicholas Smith/Richard Smythe
• 20 October 1561 – 1579 (d.): Robert Grensill
• 30 (or 28) March 1580–bef. 1631: Robert Greenwiche
• 24 April 1631–aft. 1644 (d.): Morgan Godwin
• 24 September 1660 – 6 April 1669 (d.): Thomas Cooke
• 8 May 1669 – 20 August 1684 (d.): Stephen Philips
• 25 August 1684–December 1686 (d.): Francis Wheeler
• 5 January 1687 – 1713 (res.): Adam Ottley^[4]
• 18 July 1713–bef. 1727 (d.): Robert Comyn^[5]
• 24 January 1727–bef. 1732 (d.): Richard Crosse
• 1 July 1732–bef. 1738 (res.): Samuel Croxall^[6]
• 6 May 1738–bef. 1741 (res.): Robert Breton
• 1 January 1741–bef. 1760 (d.):
  son Egerton was later Archdeacon of Salop
  in Lichfield diocese)
• 11 February 1760–bef. 1769 (res.): John Harley
• 2 February 1769–bef. 1792 (d.): Robert Clive
• 4 August 1792 – 1830: Joseph Plymley (surnamed Corbett after 1804)^[7]
• 1830–1851 (d.): William Vickers
• 16 August 1851–1876: William Waring (became Archdeacon of Ludlow)

On 4 April 1876, the archdeaconry who renamed Ludlow.

Archdeacons of Ludlow

• 1876–bef. 1877 (d.): William Waring (previously Archdeacon of Shropshire)
• 17 March 1877–bef. 1892 (res.): George Maddison^[8][9]
• 4 January 1892–aft. 1902^[10] (res.):^[11] Henry Bather
• 1904–1913 (res.): Algernon Oldham^[12]
• 1913–1928 (ret.): Alfred Lilley^[13]
• 1928–1932 (res.): Edwin Bartleet^[14]
• 1932–28 July 1939 (d.): Henry Dixon^[15][16]
• 1939–7 December 1947 (d.): Herbert Whately^[15][17]
• 1948–1960 (res.): Hugh Bevan (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[18]
• 1960–1970 (res.):
  John Lewis (afterwards Archdeacon of Hereford)^[19]
• 1970–1982 (ret.): Andrew Woodhouse (afterwards Archdeacon of Hereford)^[20]
• 1982–1983 (ret.): Mark Wood, Bishop suffragan of Ludlow^[21]
• 1984–1987 (res.): Ian Griggs (afterwards Bishop suffragan of Ludlow)^[22]
• 1987–1992 (res.): Richard Lewis^[23]
• 1992–2001 (res.): John Saxbee (also Bishop suffragan of Ludlow from 1994)^[24][25]
• 2002–2009 (ret.): Michael Hooper, Bishop suffragan of Ludlow^[26]
• 2009 – 30 April 2020 (ret.): Alistair Magowan, Bishop suffragan of Ludlow^[27][28]
• 26 April 2021 – present: Fiona Gibson^[29]