The Archbishop’s official residence is at Lambeth Palace, London, and second residence at the Old Palace, Canterbury. Originally prior to the Benedictine monastery of St. Andrew in Rome, he was sent to England by Pope Gregory I with the mission to convert the natives to Roman Christianity. April 21—Optional Memorial Liturgical Color: White. Few bishops have been canonized as saints since the Catholic Counter-Reformation of … Theodore was a monk (probably of the Basilian Order) but not yet in Holy Orders, living at Rome in 667, when Pope Vitalian chose him for the See of Canterbury in place of Wighard, who had died before … An archbishop or metropolitan, in the present sense of the term, is a bishop who governs a diocese strictly his own, while he presides at the same time over the bishops of a well-defined district composed of simple dioceses but not of provinces.
† (Archbishop: 596 to 26 May 604) Robert Champart † (Archbishop: 1051 to 14 Sep 1052 ) Thomas Chetham , O.S.A. Cuthbert, Archbishop of Canterbury, date of birth not known; d. October 25, 758. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 19 Jan 1526 to 1553 ) He was Archbishop of Canterbury for 22 years, from 1533 to 1555. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby told a national commission investigating child sex abuse that his church has not done enough to root out the problem.

In the Orthodox and other churches of the East, the title of archbishop is far more common than in the West, and it is less consistently associated with metropolitan functions. Earlier in the program, Archbishop Peter Machado was … John Whitgift, archbishop of Canterbury who did much to strengthen the Anglican church during the last years of Elizabeth I and to secure its acceptance by her successor, James I. On the afternoon of 17 September 2010, while on his apostolic visit to the United Kingdom, the Holy Father traveled to Lambeth Palace to pay a courtesy visit with the Archbishop of Canterbury, His Grace Dr. Rowan Williams. ST. LAURENCE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. His pen pierced the blue sheet above to see God . The current archbishop. At this council Ethelbald, King of …
He was the first bishop to be appointed to the Privy Council by Elizabeth, who entirely trusted and supported him, Roman Catholic bishops and … He is first heard of as Abbot of Liminge, Kent. In the modern Roman Catholic church the title is also used occasionally as an honorary title for certain bishops who are not metropolitans. The current Archbishop of Canterbury is the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Justin Welby, 105th holder of the Chair of St. Augustine of Canterbury. The new church called itself the Church of England, and now the Archbishop is the leader of that church. There were 257 parishes, and only one archdeaconry for the whole diocese.