TheArchdeacon of West Ham is a senior ecclesiastical officer – in charge of the Archdeaconry of West Ham – in theChurch of EnglandDiocese of Chelmsford. The current archdeacon isMike Power.

Historically, the Archdeaconry of Essex formed part of theDiocese of London, until the Victorian diocese reforms transferred it, on 1 January 1846, to theDiocese of Rochester.^[1] The title first occurs in sources before 1100, as one of four archdeacons in the (then much larger) Diocese of London, but there had been four archdeacons prior to this point, some of whom may be regarded as essentially predecessors in the line of the Essex archdeacons.

From 4 May 1877, the archdeaconry made up part of the newly createdDiocese of St Albans^[2] until it became part of the newly createdDiocese of Chelmsford on 23 January 1914.^[1][3]

On 17 March 1922, the Archdeaconry of Essex was renamed the Archdeaconry of West Ham when the newArchdeaconry of Southend was created from part of the old archdeaconry.^[4][5][6]

The role of Archdeacon of West Ham has existed separately from theBishop suffragan of Barking since 1958;^[7] the archdeaconry was itself divided to create theHarlow archdeaconry following a 1989 decision of the Diocesan Synod^[8] and again on 1 February 2013, by Pastoral Order of the Bishop of Chelmsford, the newArchdeaconry of Barking was created from the West Ham archdeaconry; initially, the Archdeacon of West Ham was also Acting Archdeacon of Barking.^[9]

• Greenway, Diana E. (1968),Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300, vol. 1, pp. 12–14
• Horn, Joyce M. (1963),Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, vol. 5, pp. 9–11
• Horn, Joyce M. (1969),Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 1, pp. 9–10
• Horn, Joyce M. (1974),Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 3, p. 59

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