The Archdeacon of Macclesfield is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Chester.^[1] As such she or he is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy^[2] within its six rural deaneries: Bowdon, Congleton, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Mottram, Nantwich, Chadkirk, Cheadle and Stockport.^[3]

The archdeaconry of Macclesfield was created from the Chester archdeaconry on 21 September 1880^[4] (the Diocese of Liverpool having been created from the Liverpool archdeaconry earlier that year). The archdeaconry is currently vacant.

List of archdeacons

• 1880–1884 (res.): James Kelly^[5]
• 1884–1893 (res.): Arthur Gore^[6]
• 1893–1904 (res.): Maxwell Woosnam^[7]
• 1904–28 December 1918 (d.): Maitland Wood^[8]
• 1919–27 April 1922 (d.): Edward Mercer^[9]
• 1922–7 January 1932 (d.): John Thorpe^[10]
• 1932–26 October 1941 (d.): John Armitstead^[11]
• 1941–7 October 1950 (d.): Frank Okell (also Bishop suffragan of Stockport from 1949)^[12]
• 1950–1958 (ret.): Tyler Whittle (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[13]
• 1958–4 April 1965 (d.): Thomas Clarke^[14]
• 1965–13 May 1967 (d.): Harry Saunders^[15]
• 1967–1978 (ret.): Francis House (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[16]
• 1978–1985 (ret.): Rennie Simpson (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[17]
• 1985–1994 (res.): John Gaisford^[18]
• 1994–2010 (ret.): Richard Gillings (afterwards archdeacon emeritus)^[19]
• 2011 – 29 September 2023: Ian Bishop^[20] (became Bishop of Thetford)^[21]

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