Len Tyler

Archdeacon of Rochdale (1962–1966)

Leonard George (Len) Tyler ^[1] (15 April 1920 – 21 September 2010) was Archdeacon of Rochdale from 1962 until 1966.^[2]

Tyler was educated at Darwen Grammar School; Liverpool University; Christ's College, Cambridge; and Westcott House.^[3] He was ordained in 1926.^[4]

He was successively

Chaplain, Trinity College, Kandy
Principal, Diocesan Divinity School, Colombo
Rector (ecclesiastical) of Bradford, Manchester
Vicar of Leigh, Lancashire
Anglican adviser to ABC Weekend TV
Principal, William Temple School^[5]

References

^ NPG details
^ Church News The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 27 July 1966; pg. 12; Issue 56694
^ ‘TYLER, Ven. Leonard George’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 30 Aug 2017
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 :London, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
^ William Temple Foundation

Church of England titles
Preceded by Edgar Stephenson	Archdeacon of Rochdale 1962–1966	Succeeded by Arthur Henry Ballard

Archdeacons of Rochdale

Arthur Clarke
Thomas Sale
Albert Gaskell
Edgar Stephenson
Len Tyler
Arthur Ballard
Harold Fielding
David Bonser
Mark Dalby
Andrew Ballard
Mark Davies
Cherry Vann
David Sharples

v t e Anglican Diocese of Manchester
Manchester Cathedral Bishopscourt, Broughton Church House, Manchester
Office holders	David Walker, Bishop of Manchester Mark Davies, Bishop suffragan of Middleton and acting Bishop of Sodor and Man Matthew Porter, Bishop suffragan of Bolton AEO: Stephen Race, Bishop suffragan of Beverley & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Rogers Govender, Dean of Manchester Karen Lund, Archdeacon of Manchester Rachel Mann, Archdeacon of Bolton and Salford Archdeacon of Rochdale (vacant)
Historic offices	Bishop suffragan of Burnley (1901–1926; moved to Diocese of Blackburn) Bishop suffragan of Whalley (1909–1926; moved to Diocese of Blackburn) Bishop suffragan of Hulme (1924–2009) Archdeacon of Lancaster (1847–1926; became Diocese of Blackburn) Archdeacon of Blackburn (1877–1926; became Diocese of Blackburn)

Archdeacons in the Church of England

Current

northern province	Auckland Blackburn Bolton Bradford Carlisle Chester Cleveland Doncaster Durham East Riding (York) Halifax Lancaster Leeds Lindisfarne Liverpool Knowsley and Sefton Macclesfield Man Manchester Newark Nottingham Northumberland Pontefract Richmond and Craven Rochdale St Helens and Warrington Salford Sheffield and Rotherham Stoke Sunderland Walsall West Cumberland Westmorland and Furness Wigan and West Lancashire York (West Riding)
southern province	Ashford Aston Barnstaple Barking Bath Bedford Berkshire Birmingham Bodmin Boston Bournemouth Brighton & Lewes Bristol Bromley & Bexley Buckingham Cambridge Canterbury Chelmsford Charing Cross ("Two Cities") Cheltenham Chichester Colchester Cornwall Coventry ("Archdeacon Pastor") Croydon Derby City and South Derbyshire Derbyshire Peak and Dales Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley East Derbyshire Eastern Archdeaconry (Europe) Exeter France Germany and Northern Europe Gibraltar Gloucester Hackney Hampstead Harlow Hastings Hereford Hertford Horsham Huntingdon and Wisbech Ipswich Isle of Wight Italy and Malta Lambeth Leicester Lewisham & Greenwich Lichfield Lincoln London Loughborough Ludlow Lynn Maidstone Malmesbury The Meon Middlesex Norfolk North West Europe Northampton Northolt Norwich Oakham Oxford Plymouth Portsdown Reigate Rochester St Albans Salop/Shropshire (Lichfield diocese) Sarum Sherborne Southend Southwark Stansted Stow and Lindsey Sudbury Suffolk Surrey Switzerland Taunton Tonbridge Totnes Wandsworth Warwick ("Archdeacon Missioner") Wells West Ham Westminster Wilts Winchester Worcester
non-territorial	Military archdeacons: Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force Prison Service "Archdeacon Missioner" (see Warwick) & "Archdeacon Pastor" (see Coventry) Rural Mission (Eds & Ips diocese)