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Archbishop of Canterbury

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1 ________ • Blackburn • Bradford • Carlisle • Chester • Durham • Liverpool • Manchester • Newcastle • Ripon and Leeds • Sheffield • Sodor & Man • Southwell • Wakefield

2 He also has a residence next to ________ on the site of the medieval Archbishop's Palace.

3 He is the 104th in a line that goes back more than 1400 years to ________, who founded the oldest see in England in the year 597.

4 Chancellor of ________[4]

5 The first Archbishop of Canterbury was St Augustine (not to be confused with St Augustine of Hippo), who arrived in Kent in 597 AD, having been sent by ________ on a mission to the English.

6 [5] However, in the 5th and 6th centuries Britannia began to be overrun by pagan, Germanic peoples who came to be known collectively as the ________.

7 Trinity (Father, Son, ________) Theology • Doctrine Thirty-Nine Articles Caroline Divines Oxford Movement Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral Sacraments • Mary • Saints

8 Archbishops are, by convention, appointed to the Privy Council and may, therefore, also use the style of "________" for life (unless they are later removed from the council).

9 As holder of one of the "five great sees" (the others being York, London, Durham and Winchester), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the Lords Spiritual of the ________.

10 He is the metropolitan archbishop of the Province of Canterbury, which covers the southern two-thirds of ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the half-brother of William the Conqueror, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, was successfully tried for defrauding the Archbishop of Canterbury of church property a decade after the Norman Conquest of England?
  • the position of Laudian Professor of Arabic was established at the University of Oxford by William Laud (pictured), the Archbishop of Canterbury?
  • five months before his death, William Edington was offered the post of Archbishop of Canterbury, but turned it down?
  • as part of the Canterbury-York dispute in medieval England, Gerard, an Archbishop of York, once kicked over chairs and refused to sit until his chair was as high as the Archbishop of Canterbury's?
  • Horseferry Road takes its name from a horse-ferry from The Embankment to Lambeth Stairs, once one of the most important Thames crossings in London, and which was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury?
  • Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, having lost his position on the Historic Churches Preservation Trust (for which he denounced the Archbishop of Canterbury as having "held a pistol to my face while the Dean of Gloucester plunged his dagger into my back"), founded his own, more intransigent, committee, the Friends of Friendless Churches?
  • Deusdedit of Canterbury (d. 664), a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury was the first non-Italian Archbishop of Canterbury?
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