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Archdeacons are senior clergy within the Diocese and work with the Diocesan Bishop as part of her staff team, taking responsibility for a specific area of the Diocese (the Archdeaconry).
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The Archdeacon of Gloucester
The Venerable John Whittaker joined the Diocese as Archdeacon of Gloucester in September 2026. Sue Strawbridge may be contacted regarding Gloucester Archdeaconry enquiries (details below). The Archdeacon of Gloucester has responsibility for the five deaneries on the western side of the Diocese covering Gloucester City, Severn Vale, Forest South, Wotton and Stroud.
07484967569 email: ku.gro.coidsolg@rekattihwJ
PA to the Archdeacon of Gloucester
Sue Strawbridge
ku.gro.coidsolg@egdirbwartSS
01452 835583
The Archdeacon of Cheltenham
The Venerable Katrina Scott joined the Diocese as Archdeacon of Cheltenham in March 2025. Debbie Long may be contacted regarding Cheltenham Archdeaconry enquiries (details below). The Archdeacon of Cheltenham has responsibility for the four deaneries on the eastern side of the Diocese covering Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Cirencester, and the Cotswolds.
Mobile: 07484 967570 email ku.gro.coidsolg@ttocsk
PA to the Archdeacon of Cheltenham
Debbie Long
01452 835581
About our Archdeacons
The Diocese of Gloucester is divided roughly down the middle with the Gloucester Archdeaconry to the west and Cheltenham Archdeaconry to the east. Archdeacons have a wide variety of responsibilities, each contributing towards the healthy mission and ministry of the parishes and worshipping communities within their areas, as well as sharing in the wider strategic life of the Diocese. They support clergy, churchwardens and PCCs in both their spiritual and practical exercise of mission in their local context. Archdeacons work closely with Area Deans and Deanery Lay Chairs and have a particular role during a vacancy (i.e. when a member of clergy has moved or retired) and in the appointment of clergy.
Archdeacon of Gloucester
John joined the Diocese of Gloucester as Archdeacon of Gloucester in September 2026, having moved here from Putney in London where he had served as Team Rector since 2018 in the Parish of Putney in the Diocese of Southwark, and as Area Dean of Wandsworth.
Before this, John’s first incumbency was in the Barrow Wolds group of parishes, four churches across seven villages. His second incumbency was at St Mary’s Hinckley, a busy town centre church. Earlier in his ministry he served his curacy in Melton Mowbray, in a team ministry in a market town with surrounding villages.
John trained for ordination at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, and was deaconed at Leicester Cathedral in 2000. Before ordination, he read Economics at Leicester University and trained and worked as a Chartered Accountant in Leicestershire.
Archdeacon of Cheltenham
Archdeacon Katrina is married to Nick, a prison chaplain and Mum to Ruth and Freddie. Her vocation is rooted in the call to share God’s love with all in our communities, very much based on the words of Jesus in John 15: ‘Love one another as I have loved you’.
Since 2015 she has served the Diocese of Gloucester as Area Dean of the North Cotswold Deanery and Rector of the Benefice of the Guitings, Cutsdean, Farmcote, Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter with Eyford and Naunton. Alongside these roles, Archdeacon Katrina has been Chair of the House of Clergy and one of our General Synod representatives.
Before her ministry here, Archdeacon Katrina was ordained in Coventry in 2000 and worked in the urban parishes of Hillfields and as Vicar of Willenhall. She was also a member of the Bishop’s Core Staff Team as Dean of Women’s Ministry for the Coventry Diocese.
At her Collation and Installation Service in March 2025, Archdeacon Katrina was vested with her father’s cope, which he wore as Archdeacon of Buckingham.
