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|picture caption=Canterbury Cathedral
|arms=Archbishop of Canterbury arms.svg
|province=Canterbury
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|parishes=261
|parish no=261
|churches=335
|church no=335
|bishop=Dr Rowan Williams
|bishop=Dr Rowan Williams
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|cathedral=Canterbury Cathedral
|cathedral=Canterbury Cathedral
|archdeaconries=Canterbury, Ashford, Maidstone
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The '''Diocese of Canterbury''' in the [[Church of England]] covers [[Kent]] east of the [[River Medway]].  It was founded in 597 by St Augustine of Canterbury, the "Apostle to the English", who led the Church's effort to convert the English peoples from heathenism to Christianity, and it is thus the oldest see of the Church of England..  Augustine was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is the bishop of this Diocese, remains the "Primate of All England" today, considered "first amongst equals" amongst the bishops of the Church.
The '''Diocese of Canterbury''' in the [[Church of England]] covers [[Kent]] east of the [[River Medway]].  It was founded in 597 by St Augustine of Canterbury, the "Apostle to the English", who led the Church's effort to convert the English peoples from heathenism to Christianity, and it is thus the oldest see of the Church of England.  Augustine was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is the bishop of this Diocese, remains the "Primate of All England" today, considered "first amongst equals" amongst the bishops of the Church.


The Diocese of Canterbury is part of the Province of Canterbury.
The Diocese of Canterbury is part of the Province of Canterbury.
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==Archbishops==
==Archbishops==
==List of archbishops==
===List of bishops===
{| style="width: 25%; height: 200px" border="1" class="wikitable"
The bishop of the diocese of Canterbury has been, ever since its foundation by Augustine, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
|+ Key to abbreviations in tables below
! scope="row" | bet.
|between
|-
! scope="row" | c.
|circa
|-
! scope="row" | dep.
|deposed
|-
! scope="row" | depr.
|deprived
|-
! scope="row" | el.
|elected
|-
! scope="row" | enth.
|'''enthroned'''
|-
! scope="row" | nom.
|nominated
|-
! scope="row" | pos.
|'''postulated'''
|-
! scope="row" | tr.
|'''translated'''
|-
! scope="row" | res.
|resigned
|}


===Pre-Norman conquest===
For the list of Archbishops of Canterbury, see under [[Province of Canterbury#Archbishop of Canterbury|Province of Canterbury]].
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 95%;"
|-
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | From
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | Until
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 25%;" | Incumbent
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 50%;" | Notes
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 597
|style="text-align: center;" | 26 May 604 or 605
|'''Augustine'''
|Canonised: St Augustine of Canterbury.<ref name="Walsh73">Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 73</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | c. 604
|style="text-align: center;" | 2 Feb 619
|'''Laurence'''
|(Laurentius, Lawrence) Canonised: St Laurence of Canterbury.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 357</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 619
|style="text-align: center;" | 24 Apr 624
|'''Mellitus'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]];<ref name="Handbook213">Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 213</ref> canonised: St Mellitus.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 420</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 624
|style="text-align: center;" | 10 Nov<br />bet. 627 and 631
|'''Justus'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Rochester|Rochester]];<ref name="Handbook213" /> canonised: St Justus.<ref name="Walsh73" />
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 627
|style="text-align: center;" | 30 Sep 653
|'''Honorius'''
|Canonised: St Honorius.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 268</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | Mar 655
|style="text-align: center;" | 14 Jul 664
|'''Deusdedit'''
|Canonised: St Deusdedit.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 154</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 14 Jul 664
|style="text-align: center;" | c. 666
|colspan="2" | ''See vacant''
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | c. 666
|style="text-align: center;" | 668
|''('''Wighard''')''
|(Wigheard) Died of plague before consecration.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 26 Mar 668
|style="text-align: center;" | 19 Sep 690
|'''Theodore of Tarsus'''
|Canonised: St Theodore of Tarsus.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 581</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 29 Jun 693
|style="text-align: center;" | 13 Jan 731
|'''Berhtwald'''
|(Brihtwald, Beorhtweald, Bertwald, Berthwald, Beorhtwald, or Beretuald) Abbot of Reculver Abbey;<ref name="Delaney90">Delaney ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 90</ref> canonised: St Berhtwald.<ref name="Delaney90" />
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 10 Jun 731
|style="text-align: center;" | 30 Jul 734
|'''Tatwine'''
|(Tatwin, Tatuini, or Tadwinus) Canonised: St Tatwine.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 571</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 735
|style="text-align: center;" | 17 Oct 739
|'''Nothhelm'''
|(Nothelm) Canonised: St Nothelm.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 453</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | c. 740
|style="text-align: center;" | 26 Oct 760
|'''Cuthbert'''
|Possibly translated from [[Diocese of Hereford|Hereford]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 27 Sep 761
|style="text-align: center;" | 764
|'''Bregowine'''
|(Bregwine or Bregwin) Canonised: St Bregwin.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 2 Feb 765
|style="text-align: center;" | 11/12 Aug 792
|'''Jænberht'''
|(Iambert, Iaenbeorht, Iænbert, Iaenberht, Iaenbert, or Iaenberht) Abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 21 Jul 793
|style="text-align: center;" | 12 May 805
|'''Æthelhard'''
|(Ethelhard, Æthilheard, or Aethelheard)
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | c. Oct 805
|style="text-align: center;" | 21 Mar 832
|'''Wulfred'''
|
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 8 Jun 832
|style="text-align: center;" | 30 Aug 832
|'''Feologild'''
|(Feologeld) Abbot of an unknown monastery before election.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | c. 27 Jul 833
|style="text-align: center;" | 4 Feb 870
|'''Ceolnoth'''
|
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 870
|style="text-align: center;" | 30 Jun 888
|'''Æthelred'''
|(Ethelred)
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 890
|style="text-align: center;" | 2 Aug 923
|'''Plegmund'''
|(Plegemund) Clerk to King Alfred.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | bet. 923 and 925
|style="text-align: center;" | 8 Jan 926
|'''Athelm'''
|(Æðelhelm) Translated from [[Diocese of Bath and Wells|Wells]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | c. 926
|style="text-align: center;" | 12 Feb 941
|'''Wulfhelm'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Bath and Wells|Wells]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 941
|style="text-align: center;" | 2 Jun 958
|'''Oda'''
|(Odo, Oda the Severe) Translated from Ramsbury; canonised: St Oda.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' pp. 454–455</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 958
|style="text-align: center;" | 959
|'''Ælfsige'''
|(Aelfsige)
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 959
|style="text-align: center;" | dep. 959
|'''Byrhthelm'''
|(Beorhthelm or Birthelm) Translated from [[Diocese of Bath and Wells|Wells]], deposed & returned to Wells.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 959
|style="text-align: center;" | 19 May 988
|'''Dunstan'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]]; canonised: St Dunstan.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 164</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 988
|style="text-align: center;" | Feb 990
|'''Æthelgar'''
|Translated from Selsey.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 990
|style="text-align: center;" | 28 Oct 994
|'''Sigeric the Serious'''
|Translated from Ramsbury.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | el. 21 Apr 995
|style="text-align: center;" | 16 Nov 1005
|'''Ælfric of Abingdon'''
|(Ælfric of Wessex) Translated from [[Diocese of Winchester|Winchester]]; canonised: St Aelfric.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 12</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 1006
|style="text-align: center;" | 19 Apr 1012
|'''Ælfheah'''
|(Alphege, Elphege, Alfege, or Godwine) Translated from [[Diocese of Winchester|Winchester]]; canonised: St Alphege.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 28</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 1013
|style="text-align: center;" | 12 Jun 1020
|'''Lyfing'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Bath and Wells|Wells]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 13 Nov 1020
|style="text-align: center;" | c. 29 Oct 1038
|'''Æthelnoth'''
|(Aethelnoth, Ethelnoth, Egelnodus, or Ednodus) Formerly Dean of Canterbury.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 1038
|style="text-align: center;" | 29 Oct 1050
|'''Eadsige'''
|(Eadsige, Eadsimus, or Eadsin)
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | Mar 1051
|style="text-align: center;" | dep. Sep 1052
|'''Robert of Jumièges'''
|(Robert Chambert or Robert Champart) Deposed.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 1052
|style="text-align: center;" | depr. 11 Apr 1070
|'''Stigand'''
|Concurrently [[Diocese of Winchester]]; deprived of both sees.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | <small>'''Source(s):''' </small><ref name="Handbook214">Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 214</ref>
|}
 
===Pre-Reformation===
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 95%;"
|-
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | From
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | Until
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 25%;" | Incumbent
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 50%;" | Notes
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 29 Aug 1070
|style="text-align: center;" | 28 May 1089
|'''Lanfranc'''
|Abbot of St Étienne, Caen.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 4 Dec 1093
|style="text-align: center;" | 21 Apr 1109
|'''Anselm'''
|Abbot of Bec; Canonised: St Anselm.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' pp. 48–49</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 21 Apr 1109
|style="text-align: center;" | 26 Apr 1114
|colspan="2" | ''See vacant''
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | el. 26 Apr 1114
|style="text-align: center;" | 2 Oct 1122
|'''Ralph d'Escures'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Rochester|Rochester]].<ref name="Handbook232">Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 232</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 18 Feb 1123
|style="text-align: center;" | 21 Nov 1136
|'''William de Corbeil'''
|(William of Corbeil) Prior of St Osyth.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 21 Nov 1136
|style="text-align: center;" | 8 Jan 1139
|colspan="2" | ''See vacant''
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 8 Jan 1139
|style="text-align: center;" | 18 Apr 1161
|'''Theobald of Bec'''
|(Tedbald) Abbot of Bec.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 18 Apr 1161
|style="text-align: center;" | 3 Jun 1162
|colspan="2" | ''See vacant''
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 3 Jun 1162
|style="text-align: center;" | 29 Dec 1170
|'''Thomas Becket'''
|(Thomas of London, Thomas à Becket) Previously Archdeacon of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor;<ref name="Handbook84">Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 84</ref> canonised: St Thomas of Canterbury.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 595</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | 1173
|''('''Roger de Bailleul''')''
|Abbot of Le Bec-Hellouin; elected but declined the see.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 7 Apr 1174
|style="text-align: center;" | 16 Feb 1184
|'''Richard'''
|(Richard of Dover) Prior of Dover.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. Dec 1184
|style="text-align: center;" | Nov 1190
|'''Baldwin of Forde'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Worcester|Worcester]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | el. 27 Nov 1191
|style="text-align: center;" | 26 Dec 1191
|''('''Reginald Fitz Jocelin''')''
|(Reginald Italus, Richard the Lombard, or Reginald Lombardus) Translated from [[Diocese of Bath and Wells|Wells]]; elected, however, appeals against it were sent to Pope Celestine III, but Reginald died before they were heard.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 26 Dec 1191
|style="text-align: center;" | 29 May 1193
|colspan="2" | ''See vacant''
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 29 May 1193
|style="text-align: center;" | 13 Jul 1205
|'''Hubert Walter'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Salisbury|Salisbury]]; Lord Chancellor;<ref name="Handbook84" /> Chief Justiciar.<ref>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 71</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | el. bet. Jul <br />and Oct 1205
|style="text-align: center;" | bet. Oct <br />and Dec 1206
|''('''Reginald''')''
|Sub-prior, elected but set aside by King John.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | pos. 11 Dec 1205
|style="text-align: center;" | c. 30 Mar 1206
|''('''John de Gray''')''
|Bishop of Norwich; chosen by the monks but set aside by Pope Innocent III.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 17 Jun 1207
|style="text-align: center;" | 9 Jul 1228
|Cardinal '''Stephen Langton'''
|Created a Cardinal in 1206.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | el. 3 Aug 1228
|style="text-align: center;" | Jan 1229
|''('''Walter d'Eynsham''')''
|(Walter de Hempsham) Elected but set aside by King Henry III of England and Pope Gregory IX.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 10 Jun 1229
|style="text-align: center;" | 3 Aug 1231
|'''Richard le Grant'''
|(Richard Grant or Richard Wethershed) Formerly Chancellor of the [[Diocese of Lincoln|see of Lincoln]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | pos. 22 Sep 1231
|style="text-align: center;" | 20 Dec 1231
|''('''Ralph Neville''')''
|(Ralf Nevill) [[Bishop of Chichester]], election quashed by Pope Gregory IX.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | el. 16 Mar 1232
|style="text-align: center;" | 12 Jun 1232
|''('''John of Sittingbourne''')''
|election quashed by Pope Gregory IX.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | el. 26 Aug 1232
|style="text-align: center;" | 1 Jun 1233
|''('''John Blund''')''
|(Johannes Blund, Iohannes Blondus, Iohannes Blundus) election quashed by Pope Gregory IX.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 2 Apr 1234
|style="text-align: center;" | 16 Nov 1240
|'''Edmund Rich'''
|Prebendary of Salisbury; canonised: St Edmund of Abingdon.<ref>Walsh ''Dictionary of Saints'' p. 169</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | el. 1 Feb 1241
|style="text-align: center;" | 14 Jul 1270
|'''Boniface of Savoy'''
|Translated from Belley in France
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | el. 9 Sep 1270
|style="text-align: center;" | summer 1272
|''('''William Chillenden''')''
|(Adam of Chillenden) Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury; elected but set aside by Pope Gregory X.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 26 Feb 1273
|style="text-align: center;" | res. 5 Jun 1278
|Cardinal '''Robert Kilwardby'''
|Created a cardinal in 1278; and resigned.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | pos. Jun or Jul 1278
|style="text-align: center;" | Jan 1279
|''('''Robert Burnell''')''
|(Robert Burnel) [[Diocese of Bath and Wells|Bishop of Bath & Wells]]; elected but set aside by Pope Nicholas III.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 19 Feb 1279
|style="text-align: center;" | 8 Dec 1292
|'''John Peckham'''
|(John Pecham) English Provincial of the Franciscan Order.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 12 Sep 1294
|style="text-align: center;" | 11 May 1313
|'''Robert Winchelsey'''
|(Robert Winchelsea) Formerly Archdeacon of Essex; Chancellor of Oxford
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | el. 28 May 1313
|style="text-align: center;" | 1 Oct 1313
|''('''Thomas Cobham''')''
|Election quashed.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 1 Oct 1313
|style="text-align: center;" | 16 Nov 1327
|'''Walter Reynolds'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Worcester|Worcester]]; Lord Chancellor;<ref name="Handbook86">Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 86</ref> Lord Treasurer.<ref name="Handbook104">Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 104</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 5 Jun 1328
|style="text-align: center;" | 12 Oct 1333
|'''Simon Mepeham'''
|(Simon Meopham) Prebendary of Chichester Cathedral; excommunicated.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | pos. 3 Nov 1333
|style="text-align: center;" | 23 Aug 1348
|'''John de Stratford'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Winchester|Winchester]]; Lord Chancellor.<ref name="Handbook86" />
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 24 Sep 1348
|style="text-align: center;" | 20 May 1349
|''('''John de Ufford''')''
|Dean of Lincoln; Lord Chancellor;<ref name="Handbook86" /> died of plague before consecration.<ref name="Handbook233">Fryde ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 233</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 19 Jul 1349
|style="text-align: center;" | 26 Aug 1349
|'''Thomas Bradwardine'''
|Died of plague
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 20 Dec 1349
|style="text-align: center;" | 26 Apr 1366
|'''Simon Islip'''
|Prebendary of St Paul's; secretary to the king and keeper of the Privy Seal.<ref name="Handbook94">Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 94</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | 1366
|''('''William Edington''')''
|(William Edendon) [[Bishop of Winchester]];<ref>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 277</ref> elected but refused the see.<ref name="Cant">Jones ''[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=32708 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541: volume 4: Monastic cathedrals (southern province): Archbishops of Canterbury]''</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 24 Jul 1366
|style="text-align: center;" | res. 28 Nov 1368
|Cardinal '''Simon Langham'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Ely|Ely]]; created a cardinal in 1368;<ref name="cardinallangham">[http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1368.htm#Langham Simon Langham]. ''The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church''. Retrieved on 22 November 2008.</ref> and resigned the see. He was elected a second time in 1374, but Pope Gregory XI refused to confirm the election.<ref name="cardinallangham" /><ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08788b.htm Simon Langham]. ''Catholic Encyclopedia''. Retrieved on 23 November 2008.</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 11 Oct 1368
|style="text-align: center;" | Jun 1374
|'''William Whittlesey'''
|(William Wittlesey) Translated from [[Diocese of Worcester|Worcester]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 4 May 1375
|style="text-align: center;" | 14 Jun 1381
|'''Simon Sudbury'''
|(Simon de Sudbury; Simon Tibold; Simon Theobold) Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]]; Lord Chancellor;<ref name="Handbook86" /> beheaded during the Peasants' Revolt.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 31 Jul 1381
|style="text-align: center;" | 31 Jul 1396
|'''William Courtenay'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]];<ref name="Handbook233"/> Lord Chancellor.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 25 Sep 1396
|style="text-align: center;" | dep. 1397
|'''Thomas Arundel'''
|(Thomas Fitz-Alan) Translated from [[Archbishop of York|York]]; Lord Chancellor; charged with high treason under Richard II, fled but restored later.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 8 Nov 1397
|style="text-align: center;" | depr. 19 Oct 1399
|'''Roger Walden'''
|Deprived.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | restored<br />19 Oct 1399
|style="text-align: center;" | 19 Feb 1414
|'''Thomas Arundel''' ''(again)''
|(Thomas Fitz-Alan) Restored by Henry IV.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 12 Mar 1414
|style="text-align: center;" | 12 Apr 1443
|'''Henry Chichele'''
|(Henry Chicheley; Henry Checheley) Translated from [[Diocese of St David's|St David's]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 13 May 1443
|style="text-align: center;" | 25 May 1452
|'''John Stafford'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Bath and Wells|Bath & Wells]]; Lord Chancellor; Lord Treasurer.<ref name="Handbook106">Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 106</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 21 Jul 1452
|style="text-align: center;" | 22 Mar 1454
|Cardinal '''John Kemp'''e
|Created a cardinal in 1439; Translated from [[Diocese of York|York]]; Lord Chancellor
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 23 Apr 1454
|style="text-align: center;" | 30 Mar 1486
|Cardinal '''Thomas Bourchier'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Ely|Ely]]; Lord Chancellor; created a cardinal in 1467.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 6 Oct 1486
|style="text-align: center;" | 15 Sep 1500
|Cardinal '''John Morton'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Ely|Ely]]; Lord Chancellor.<ref name="Handbook88">Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 88</ref> created a cardinal in 1493.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 22 Jan 1501
|style="text-align: center;" | 27 Jan 1501
|''('''Thomas Langton''')''
|[[Bishop of Winchester]]; died 5 days after being chosen.<ref name="Cant" />
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 26 Apr 1501
|style="text-align: center;" | 15/17 Feb 1503
|'''Henry Deane'''
|(Henry Dean; Henry Dene) Translated from [[Diocese of Salisbury|Salisbury]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 29 Nov 1503
|style="text-align: center;" | 22 Aug 1532
|'''William Warham'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]]; Lord Chancellor until 1515.<ref name="Handbook88" />
|}
 
===Henrician Reformation===
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|-
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | From
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | Until
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 25%;" | Incumbent
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 50%;" | Notes
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 30 Mar 1533
|style="text-align: center;" | depr. 13 Nov 1555
|'''Thomas Cranmer'''
|Archdeacon of Taunton; deprived by Mary I in 1553; put to death by burning, 21 March 1556.
|}
 
===Resubmission to Rome===
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 95%;"
|-
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | From
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | Until
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 25%;" | Incumbent
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 50%;" | Notes
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 22 Mar 1556
|style="text-align: center;" | 18/19 Nov 1558
|Cardinal '''Reginald Pole'''
|Dean of Exeter; created a cardinal in 1536.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | <small>'''Source(s):''' </small><ref name="Handbook233">Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 233</ref><ref name="BHOCant">Greenway ''[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33853 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Archbishops of Canterbury]''</ref><ref name="Handbook87">Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 87</ref><ref name="Handbook234">Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 234</ref>
|}
 
===From the Reformation===
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 95%;"
|-
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | From
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | Until
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 25%;" | Incumbent
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 50%;" | Notes
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 17 Dec 1559
|style="text-align: center;" | 17 May 1575
|'''Matthew Parker'''
|Dean of Lincoln.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | tr. 29 Dec 1575
|style="text-align: center;" | 6 Jul 1583
|'''Edmund Grindal'''
|Translated from [[Archbishop of York|York]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 14 Aug 1583
|style="text-align: center;" | 29 Feb 1604
|'''John Whitgift'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Worcester|Worcester]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 9 Oct 1604
|style="text-align: center;" | 2 Nov 1610
|'''Richard Bancroft'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 4 Mar 1611
|style="text-align: center;" | 4 Aug 1633
|'''George Abbot'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 6 Aug 1633
|style="text-align: center;" | 10 Jan 1645
|'''William Laud'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]]; executed in office;<ref name="Horn">Horn ''[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=34583 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: volume 3: Canterbury, Rochester and Winchester dioceses: Archbishops of Canterbury]''</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 10 Jan 1645
|style="text-align: center;" | 2 Sep 1660
|colspan="2" | ''See vacant''
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 2 Sep 1660
|style="text-align: center;" | 4 Jun 1663
|'''William Juxon'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 16 June 1663
|style="text-align: center;" | 9 Nov 1677
|'''Gilbert Sheldon'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 27 Jan 1678
|style="text-align: center;" | depr. 1 Feb 1690
|'''William Sancroft'''
|Dean of St Paul's;<ref name="Horn" /> deprived for not taking oaths to William III and Mary II.<ref name="Horn" /> died 24 Nov 1693.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | 31 May 1691
|style="text-align: center;" | 22 Nov 1694
|'''John Tillotson'''
|Dean of St Paul's.<ref name="Horn" />
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 6 Dec 1694
|style="text-align: center;" | 14 Dec 1715
|'''Thomas Tenison'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Lincoln|Lincoln]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 17 Dec 1715
|style="text-align: center;" | 24 Jan 1737
|'''William Wake'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Lincoln|Lincoln]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 9 Feb 1737
|style="text-align: center;" | 10 Oct 1747
|'''John Potter'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Oxford|Oxford]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 21 Oct 1747
|style="text-align: center;" | 13 Mar 1757
|'''Thomas Herring'''
|Translated from [[Archbishop of York|York]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 29 Mar 1757
|style="text-align: center;" | 19 Mar 1758
|'''Matthew Hutton'''
|Translated from [[Archbishop of York|York]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 8 Mar 1758
|style="text-align: center;" | 3 Aug 1768
|'''Thomas Secker'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Oxford|Oxford]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 12 Aug 1768
|style="text-align: center;" | 19 Mar 1783
|'''Frederick Cornwallis'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Lichfield|Lichfield & Coventry]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 31 Mar 1783
|style="text-align: center;" | 18 Jan 1805
|'''John Moore'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Bangor|Bangor]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 1 Feb 1805
|style="text-align: center;" | 21 Jul 1828
|'''Charles Manners-Sutton'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Norwich|Norwich]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 6 Aug 1828
|style="text-align: center;" | 11 Feb 1848
|'''William Howley'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 17 Feb 1848
|style="text-align: center;" | 6 Sep 1862
|'''John Sumner'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Chester|Chester]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 20 Oct 1862
|style="text-align: center;" | 28 Oct 1868
|'''Charles Longley'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of York|York]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 28 Nov 1868
|style="text-align: center;" | 1 Dec 1882
|'''Archibald Tait'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 13 Jan 1883
|style="text-align: center;" | 11 Oct 1896
|'''Edward Benson'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Truro|Truro]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 9 Nov 1896
|style="text-align: center;" | 22 Dec 1902
|'''Frederick Temple'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 14 Jan 1903
|style="text-align: center;" | res. 12 Nov 1928
|'''Randall Davidson'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Winchester|Winchester]]; retired; died 25 May 1930.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 13 Nov 1928
|style="text-align: center;" | res. 31 Mar 1942
|'''Cosmo Gordon Lang'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of York|York]]; retired. died 5 December 1945.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 1 Apr 1942
|style="text-align: center;" | 26 Oct 1944
|'''William Temple'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of York|York]]. Died in office.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 12 Jan 1945
|style="text-align: center;" | res. 31 May 1961
|'''Geoffrey Fisher'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of London|London]]; retired; died 1972.
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 1 Jun 1961
|style="text-align: center;" | res. 15 Nov 1974
|'''Michael Ramsey'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of York|York]]; retired; died 23 April 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/887|title=Michael Ramsey, 100th Archbishop of Canterbury|accessdate=4 November 2008|publisher=Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury}}</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 18 Nov 1974
|style="text-align: center;" | res. 25 Jan 1980
|'''Donald Coggan'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of York|York]]; retired; died 17 May 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1235|title=Donald Coggan, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury|accessdate=4 November 2008|publisher=Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury}}</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | nom. 1 Feb 1980
|style="text-align: center;" | res. 31 Jan 1991
|'''Robert Runcie'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of St Albans|St Albans]]; retired; died 11 Jul 2000.<ref name="RuncieOffBio">{{cite web|url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1239|title=Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury|accessdate=4 November 2008|publisher=Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury}}</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|style="text-align: center;" | enth. 19 April 1991
|style="text-align: center;" | res. 31 Oct 2002
|'''George Carey'''<ref name="CareyOffBio">{{cite web|url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/919|title=George Carey&nbsp;– 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury|accessdate=4 November 2008|publisher=Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury}}</ref>
|Translated from [[Diocese of Bath and Wells|Bath & Wells]]; retired.<ref name="CareyOffBio" />
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|style="text-align: center;" | enth. 27 Feb 2003
|style="text-align: center;" | present
|'''Rowan Williams'''
|Translated from [[Diocese of Monmouth|Monmouth]]. He was also Archbishop of Wales.<ref name="WilliamsOffBio">{{cite web|url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/73|title=Rowan Williams&nbsp;– Biography|accessdate=4 November 2008|publisher=Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury}}</ref> His resignation was announced on 16 March 2012 and is expected to take effect in December 2012.<ref>"Archbishop to be Master of Magdalene", Archbishop of Canterbury website]</ref>
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | <small>'''Source(s):'''</small><ref name="Handbook234" /><ref name="Handbook235">Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 235</ref>
|}


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[[Category:Kent]]

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Diocese of Canterbury
Church of England
Province: Canterbury
counties: Kent
Arms of the Bishop of Canterbury
Arms of the Bishop of Canterbury

Canterbury Cathedral
Bishop: Dr Rowan Williams
signs as: Cantuar
Cathedral: Canterbury Cathedral
Organisation
Suffragan
bishop(s): 		Bishop of Dover, Bishop of Ebbsfleet[1]
Bishop of Richborough[1]
Archdeaconries: Canterbury, Ashford, Maidstone
No. of parishes: 261
No. of churches: 335
Details
Website: canterbury.anglican.org

The Diocese of Canterbury in the Church of England covers Kent east of the River Medway. It was founded in 597 by St Augustine of Canterbury, the "Apostle to the English", who led the Church's effort to convert the English peoples from heathenism to Christianity, and it is thus the oldest see of the Church of England. Augustine was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is the bishop of this Diocese, remains the "Primate of All England" today, considered "first amongst equals" amongst the bishops of the Church.

The Diocese of Canterbury is part of the Province of Canterbury.

The episcopal seat of the Diocese is Canterbury Cathedral, in the city of Canterbury and around which the city has been built.

Because the diocesan bishop, as Archbishop of Canterbury, holds many responsibilities beyond the diocese (as Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and worldwide head of the Anglican Communion), many of his responsibilities in the Diocese of Canterbury are devolved upon one of his suffragan bishops, the Bishop of Dover, who is given the additional title of "Bishop in Canterbury" and in many ways empowered to act almost as if he were the diocesan bishop. (The Archbishop's residence is not even in Kent, but at Lambeth Palace, in Lambeth in Surrey.)

Suffragan bishops

The Bishop of Dover is the one active suffragan bishop in the diocese, exercising many of the Archbishop's functions in the Diocese. There was, until 2009, another suffragan bishop for the diocese, the Bishop of Maidstone, but it was decided in November 2010 that no further appointments would be made to that post.[2]

Two further suffragan bishops in Canterbury; the Bishop of Ebbsfleet and the Bishop of Richborough, but their roles are not in the diocese but as provincial episcopal visitors to the whole Province of Canterbury, ministering to parishes which do not accept the ministry of women as priests.

For organisational purposes, the diocese is divided into three archdeaconries, containing a total of fifteen deaneries:

Archbishops

List of bishops

The bishop of the diocese of Canterbury has been, ever since its foundation by Augustine, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

For the list of Archbishops of Canterbury, see under Province of Canterbury.

Outside links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Bishops of Ebbsfleet and of Richborough are the Provincial Episcopal Visitors
  2. ↑ Canterbury Diocese — Synod News


Dioceses of the Church of England

Province of Canterbury:
Bath & Wells • Birmingham • Bristol • Canterbury • Chelmsford • Chichester • Coventry • Derby • Ely • Exeter • Gibraltar in Europe • Gloucester • Guildford • Hereford • Leicester • Lichfield • Lincoln • London • Norwich • Oxford • Peterborough • Portsmouth • Rochester • Saint Albans • Saint Edmundsbury & Ipswich • Salisbury • Southwark • Truro • Winchester • Worcester
Province of York:
Blackburn • Carlisle • Chester • Durham • Leeds • Liverpool • Manchester • Newcastle • Sheffield • Sodor & Man • Southwell & Nottingham • York

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