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45 unusual facts about Archbishop of Canterbury


Affirming Catholicism

Prominent supporters include the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, as well as the Dean of St Albans, Jeffrey John, both of whom have served on the executive committee of British / Irish Affirming Catholicism in recent years.

Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America

Until 1974, these missionary dioceses were under the metropolitical oversight of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Anglican Diocese of Southwark

In other ecclesiatical use, although having lost religious orders in the English Reformation, the diocese has the London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury and records centre of the Church of England in the diocese, Lambeth Palace.

Angus Bernard MacEachern

In 1816, while serving as priest in Charlottetown, MacEachern was advised by a visiting Bishop from Quebec to build a church in the city and dedicate it to St. Dunstan, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm occasionally visited England to see the abbey's property there, as well as to visit Lanfranc, who, in 1070, had been installed as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Apocrisiarius

In the modern Anglican Communion, representatives of the Archbishop of Canterbury to various churches are styled apocrisiarioi.

Arthur Stockdale Cope

He combined this prolific output with a prestigious roll call of sitters, ranging from Kings King Edward VII, George V and King Edward VIII, to Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Baron Manners

His elder brother Charles Manners-Sutton was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1805 to 1828 and the father of Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1817 to 1834.

Benefice

Dispensation, enabling a clerk to hold several ecclesiastical dignities or benefices at the same time, was transferred to the Archbishop of Canterbury by the Peterpence, Dispensations, &c.

Bishop of Ebbsfleet

The position was created in 1994 and licensed by the Archbishop of Canterbury as a "flying bishop" to provide episcopal oversight for parishes throughout the province which do not accept the sacramental ministry of bishops who have participated in the ordination of women.

Bishop of Richborough

The position was created in 1995 and licensed by the Archbishop of Canterbury as a "flying bishop" to provide episcopal oversight for parishes throughout the province which cannot in good conscience accept the sacramental ministry of bishops who have participated in the ordination of women.

Book of Advertisements

The Book of Advertisements was a series of enactments concerning Anglican ecclesiastical matters, drawn up by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (1559-1575), with the help of Edmund Grindal, Robert Horne, Richard Cox, and Nicholas Bullingham.

Cambridge Accord

Nineteen Anglican bishops in the UK signed up to the Cambridge Accord, including Rowan Williams, who later became Archbishop of Canterbury.

Canterbury, New Hampshire

First granted by Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth in 1727, the town was named for William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Church of Pakistan

Its most internationally famous clergyman, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, formerly diocesan bishop of Raiwind in West Punjab, was given sanctuary by Robert Runcie, the then-Archbishop of Canterbury when his life was imperilled; he then taught at Oxford and served as Bishop of Rochester, England.

Croham Hurst

In the late sixteenth century its then owner, Sir Olliphe Leigh of Addington, sold it to John Whitgift, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Cross of St Augustine

The Cross of St Augustine is an award of merit in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Dudley Savage

After the BBC cancelled the show following the 22 September 1968 broadcast, more than 43,000 signatures were collected on a petition submitted to the BBC, in addition to letters sent to the Chairman of Governors of the BBC and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Frithuswith

In 1180, the Archbishop of Canterbury translated Frithuswith's remains to a new shrine in the monastery church, an event that was attended by King Henry II of England.

Gerre Hancock

In 2004 he was honored in a ceremony at Lambeth Palace in London where he was presented the Medal of the Cross of St. Augustine by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Harwood Sturtevant

In 1948 he represented the Anglican Communion at the Old Catholic Congress in Hilversum, Holland by appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

History of Buganda

The kabaka had to be Protestant, and he was invested in a coronation ceremony modeled on that of British monarchs (who are invested by the Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury) that took place at the main Protestant church.

Katherine FitzGerald, Viscountess Grandison

On 20 May 1673, Katherine and John were married by Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury in his chapel at Lambeth Palace.

Lambeth Articles

The Lambeth Articles were a series of nine doctrinal statements drawn up by Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift in 1595, in order to define Calvinist doctrine with regard to predestination and justification.

Margaret of Navarre

She protested her cousin's deposition from the archdiocese and sent letters to the pope and to Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, to beg their assistance in reinstating her favourite, but she received none from Alexander and little of actual value from Thomas.

Michel René Barnes

Along with Lewis Ayres, professor of Catholic and historical theology in the University of Durham, and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Barnes is part of a rereading of Augustine's trinitarian theology that contradicts the older, neoplatonic-centered account.

Oystermouth

Rowan Williams took the title Baron Williams of Oystermouth upon his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury in December 2012.

Paul Avis

This appraisal by the Anglican theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams identifies Avis as a leading contemporary Anglican theologian.

Rochet

One exception to the normal Anglican-style is the rochet worn by the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams which has open-ended narrow sleeves in the manner of the Roman rochet.

Sandycroft railway station

In 1896 the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward Benson died at Hawarden Castle and his body was put on the train at Sandycroft to be returned to London.

Sheldonian Theatre

With the triumph of the Restoration and with it the Church of England, Dean Fell sought to revive a project proposed in the 1630s by the late William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury: a separate building whose sole use would be graduation and degree ceremonies.

Shire Brook

The Brook also marks the boundary between the Ecclesiastical provinces of York and Canterbury.

Society of the Faith

Faith Press published the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book as well as important texts such as Peter Anson’s ‘Building up the Waste Places’.

Something Understood

In 2009, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, was interviewed on a programme talking about prayer.

St George's Interdenominational Chapel, Heathrow Airport

The three apses were originally intended for each of the contributing denominations, but in 1972 the main altar was rededicated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, and the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council for shared ecumenical use.

St. Dunstan's, Canterbury

Another of the windows commemorates the visit of Pope John Paul II to Canterbury to pray with the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury at the site of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

Sword of Sherwood Forest

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Hubert Walter, speaks against this plan and the sheriff plots to eliminate him.

The Blasphemers' Banquet

The film at the time of its airing created a controversy in Britain when then Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie advised the BBC to postpone the showing of the film and the BBC writing a reply to him defending the airing of the broadcast.

The then-Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie had been applying pressure to the BBC to postpone the broadcast of the film-poem.

Theologian of the Pontifical Household

While all Masters of the Sacred Palace were Dominicans, several members of other orders were Lectors of the Sacred Palace (e.g. Peckham O.S.F., who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1279).

Thomas Lambe

From 1629-1639 he was frequently in trouble with the Archdeacon’s Court in Colchester for preaching outside of the bounds of the Church of England during the time that the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud was seeking to impose uniformity upon the churches in England.

Tillicoultry

The old Harviestoun estate, where Archibald Tait (1811–82), Archbishop of Canterbury, spent much of his boyhood, lies East-North-East of the village.

Viscount Canterbury

Manners-Sutton was the son of the Most Reverend Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, fourth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton, third son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland.

Waterloo, London

Waterloo Road also dates from this time, built on land belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Whitgift Foundation

The foundation is governed by a Court of Governors, including the Bishop of Croydon; the Vicar of Croydon; and nominees of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Croydon Council.


All Saints Church, Maidstone

Founded by Archbishop of Canterbury William Courtenay in 1395 as part of a new College of All Saints, the church replaced an earlier one on the site dedicated to St Mary.

Austerfield

A council was convened by King Aldfrith of Northumbria at Austerfield in 702,which was then on the boundary between the two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia, attended by Berhtwald, Archbishop of Canterbury to decide on whether Saint Wilfrid should become Archbishop of York.

Ælfric of Eynsham

Until the end of the nineteenth century, the true identification of Ælfric had been problematic, primarily because Ælfric had often been confused with Ælfric of Abingdon, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Battle of Hastings

Harold was elected king by the Witenagemot of England and crowned by the Archbishop of York, Ealdred, although Norman propaganda claimed the ceremony was performed by Stigand, the uncanonically elected Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bitterne Manor

Robert Kilwardby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, visited Bitterne Manor in 1274 and spent Christmas there.

Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy

Mountjoy, by whom she had already had several children, married her on 26 December 1605 at Wanstead House in London, in a ceremony conducted by his chaplain, William Laud, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.

Church Urban Fund

The creation of the Church Urban Fund was arguably one of the most important and lasting legacies of the controversial "Faith in the City" report, produced by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission on Urban Priority Areas in 1985.

CLARITY – Employment for Blind People

Other supporters of the charity in the early 20th Century included Edward HRH Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII), HRH Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Cuddesdon

After his retirement in 1991, Robert Runcie, former Archbishop of Canterbury and also a former vicar of Cuddesdon and college principal, took the title Baron Runcie of Cuddesdon.

Cuthred of Kent

During Cuðred's reign, the Archbishopric of Lichfield was formally abolished at the Council of Clovesho on October 12, 803, and the Archbishopric of Canterbury thus regained the status of which Offa of Mercia had sought to deprive it.

Dúnán

It is highly probable that this deference to the Archbishop of Canterbury may have had something to do with the claim put forward by the latter in a synod held in 1072, two years before Dunan's death, in which, on the supposed authority of Bede, he asserted his supremacy over the church of Ireland — a claim which Dunan's successor admitted in the most explicit manner at his consecration in Canterbury Cathedral.

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Tallis's original tune is in the Phrygian mode and was one of nine he contributed to the Psalter of 1567 for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker.

Framfield

In the 9th century it passed from the crown to the Archbishop of Canterbury, assuming its nomination as a peculiar.

Geoffrey of Canterbury

Such influence had been established by Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the reign of King Máel Coluim mac Donnchada (1058–1093) via the latter's consort, the English princess Margaret of Wessex.

Grand Remonstrance

It was strongly anti-Catholic in tone, taking the side of the Puritan party in the English church in opposition to William Laud, whom Charles had appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633 and who, by implication, was therefore placed at the heart of the Catholic plot.

James Ussher

In 1633, Ussher wrote to the new Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, in an effort to gain support for the imposition of recusancy fines on Irish Catholics.

Jenny Geddes

In 1633 King Charles I came to St Giles' to have his Scottish coronation service, using the full Anglican rites, accompanied by William Laud, his new Archbishop of Canterbury.

John of Fountains

While abbot, he continued the building of the abbey's church, and Pope Honorius III named him to a commission with Stephen Langton the Archbishop of Canterbury and William de Cornhill the Bishop of Coventry to investigate the possible canonization of Hugh of Lincoln.

John of Whithorn

Geoffrey Plantagenet was Archbishop-elect of York at the time, and John in fact ordained him as a priest, despite the opposition of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who wished to use the opportunity to force York to make obedience to Canterbury as Primate.

Little Gidding

The following year, in 1626, Nicholas Ferrar was ordained as a Deacon by William Laud (1573–1645) then Bishop of St David's and later Archbishop of Canterbury.

Maurus Scott

After his arrest, he was examined by George Abbot, who had been Bishop of London at the time of the execution of John Roberts and Scott's arrest in 1610, and was now Archbishop of Canterbury.

McFarlane v Relate Avon Ltd

The case attracted significant media attention due to the issues involved, particularly the balance of religious and LGBT rights, the intervention of former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, Lord Carey of Clifton, who provided a witness statement in support of the application, and the judge's strongly worded rebuttal of the applicant's submissions.

Nicholas Ingram

The Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, was one of many who campaigned unsuccessfully for clemency.

Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom

Amelia was christened at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace by John Moore, The Archbishop of Canterbury, on 17 September 1783.

Province of Canterbury

Accordingly at the confirmation ceremony following Justin Welby's election as Archbishop of Canterbury on 4 February 2013, these were, respectively: Richard Chartres, Tim Dakin, Christopher Lowson, Nick Holtam, John Inge and James Langstaff.

St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr

Thomas Bradwardine, later briefly Archbishop of Canterbury, was Rector of Llanbadarn Fawr 1347-1349, and thereafter the Abbot of the Cistercian Vale Royal Abbey, Chester, was ex officio Rector 1360-1538.

Tewkesbury Academy

It was run by Samuel Jones, and its students included both Dissenters such as Samuel Chandler and those who became significant Establishment figures such as Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Secker and Joseph Butler.

The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion

In 2002, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, chose "The Hedgehog's Song" for his appearance on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs.

Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers


Liverymen of the company include The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor (2013-14: Alderman Fiona Woolf CBE, former President of the Law Society of England and Wales), HM King Michael of Romania GCVO, The Most Revd & Rt Hon The Lord Williams of Oystermouth PC (Master of Magdelene College, Cambridge and former Archbishop of Canterbury), and His Honour Judge Sir Gavyn Arthur (675th Lord Mayor of London).