It covers the eastern area of Montgomeryshire and includes Welshpool, Newtown, and Llanfyllin.
In recent years the Archdeacon has lived in 17th century half-timbered Vicarage at Berriew.
[5] A former teacher, he trained for the ministry on the Church of England's Northern Ordination Course;[4] he was then made deacon at Petertide 1997 (29 June) — by Keith Sutton, Bishop of Lichfield, at Lichfield Cathedral[6] — and ordained priest the following Petertide (27 June 1998) — by Christopher Hill, Bishop of Stafford, at his title church.
[7] Wilson served his title (curacy) at Stone until 1999, later becoming an incumbent in the same diocese — Vicar of Betley, 2004–2013.
He then moved to Chester diocese, where he served as Rector of Nantwich until 2017, then a canon residentiary of the cathedral until his archidiaconal collation.