The Archdeacon of Llandaff is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff. The archdeacon is the senior priest with responsibility over the area of the archdeaconry of Llandaff, one of two archdeaconries in the diocese (the other is Margam). The archdeaconry of Llandaff currently consists of two large deaneries: Cardiff, and Eglwysilan.
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History
The first recorded archdeacons of Llandaff occur soon after the Norman Conquest. However, no territorial titles are recorded until after c. 1125. Until 1843, when the separate position of Dean of Llandaff was created, the Archdeacon also performed the duties of cathedral dean.
List of archdeacons of Llandaff
Leofric
1059-1104 Abraham
Urban I
1126 Uhtred
1140–1148 Urban II
c.1154–1159 Ralph
1165–1179 William
1172–1179 Urban III
1217–1242 Maurice
1243 Ralph of Newcastle
1244 Thomas, the king's chaplain
1260 Nicholas
1260–c1287 Simon of Radnor
1287 Robert de Briouze
1289 Henry de Cranborne or Wager
1290 Robert
1323,1337 Alexander de Monmouth
1338 Richard de Halton
1347 Thomas de Burgherssh
?–1361 John de Coventry
1361,1364 Henry Despenser
1361–1368 Robert de Walsham
1363–? Thomas Banastre of Eltisley
1366 Thomas de Southam
1368–? Richard Boule
?–1373 Thomas de Alston
1373–? John de Sulthorn
1385,1393 Robert de la More
1396–? Thomas Orewelle
?-1447 Robert Cole
1447–1454 John Stradling
1454–? Lewis Byford
1529,1541 John Quarre
?–1564 John Smith
27 April 1564 – 17 April 1571 Giles Langley
26 April 1571–? Lewis Baker
28 May 1596–? Morgan Roberts
6 May 1601 – 17 July 1606 Cadwalader Hughes
9 February 1607–December 1623 Robert Robotham
6 December 1623–? Francis Foxton
4 August 1626–May 1646 Thomas Prichard
1646–? John Clegge
16 October 1660 – 30 June 1666 Francis Davies (afterwards Bishop of Llandaff, 29 January 1667)
18 January 1668 Edward Gamage
Edward Gamage Jnr
Thomas Gamage
1686-1705 George Bull (afterwards Bishop of St David's, 1705)
1706-1722 William Watts
1722-1749 John Evans
1749–1777 John Fulham
1777–1789 William Adams
1789–? John Porter
c.1796–1843 John Probyn (also Dean of Llandaff)
1843–1857 Thomas Williams (afterwards Dean of Llandaff, 1857)
1857–1859 James Colquhoun Campbell (afterwards Bishop of Bangor, 1859)
1859–?1877 Henry Lynch Blosse
1877-1897 John Griffiths
1897–1913 Frederic Edmondes
1913–1924 James Buckley
1924–1930 David Davies
1930–1938 John James
1938–1953 Richard Jones
1953–1964 Gwynno James (afterwards Dean of Brecon, 1964)
1965–1969 Thomas Hughes, Assistant Bishop
1969–1971 John Williams
1971–1977 Alun Davies (afterwards Dean of Llandaff, 1977)
1977–1988 Lewis Clarke
1988–1991 Albert Lewis
1991–1997 (ret.) David Lee
1998–2008 (ret.) Bill Thomas
31 May 2009 – July 2021 Peggy Jackson
5 September 2021 – present Rhod Green (previously called Rod)
Roderick Ernest Alexander Green (called Rhod since c. 2023; previously called Rod; born 1974) was collated Archdeacon of Llandaff on 5 September 2021. He trained for the ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and received ordination in the Church of England: he was made deacon at Petertide 2007 (30 June) — by Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral — and ordained priest on 17 May 2008 — by Stephen Oliver, Bishop of Stepney, at St John-at-Hackney. He then served all his ministry in the Diocese of London prior to his archidiaconal collation: as curate at Christ Church, Spitalfields, Associate Vicar at St Paul's Church, Shadwell (an HTB church plant), and Vicar in Harrow as several churches there united as a "resource church".