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The Archdeaconry of Barnstaple or Barum is one of the oldest archdeaconries in England. It is an administrative division of the Diocese of Exeter in the Church of England.




History


The Diocese of Exeter was divided into four archdeaconries in Norman times, probably during the bishopric of Osbern FitzOsbern (1072–1103):

Exeter
Barnstaple
Totnes
Cornwall
In 1782, it was noted that the archdeaconry contained the deaneries of Barum (Barnstaple), Chumleigh, Hertland, Shirwell, South Molton and Torrington.
The archdeaconry currently comprises the following deaneries:

Deanery of Barnstaple
Deanery of Hartland
Deanery of Holsworthy
Deanery of Shirwell
Deanery of South Molton
Deanery of Torrington




List of archdeacons






References






Sources


Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Barum or Barnstaple . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 405–408 – via Wikisource.
Horn, Joyce M. (1964), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, vol. 9, pp. 19–21
Gribble, Joseph Besly–Memorials of Barnstaple: being an attempt to supply the want of a history of that ancient borough; 1830; pp 483–486 (Google eBook)

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