Archbishops of Canterbury

1

 

597

 

Augustine

2

 

604

 

Laurentius

3

 

619

 

Mellitus

4

 

624

 

Justus

5

 

627

 

Honorius

6

 

655

 

Deusdedit

7

 

668

 

Theodore

8

 

693

 

Berhtwald

9

 

731

 

Tatwine

10

 

735

 

Nothelm

11

 

740

 

Cuthbert

12

 

761

 

Bregowine

13

 

765

 

Jaenbert

14

 

793

 

Ethelhard

15

 

805

 

Wulfred

16

 

832

 

Feologeld

17

 

833

 

Ceolnoth

18

 

870

 

Ethelred

19

 

890

 

Plegmund

20

 

914

 

Athelm

21

 

923

 

Wulfhelm

22

 

942

 

Oda

23

 

959

 

Aelfsige

24

 

959

 

Brithelm

25

 

960

 

Dunstan

26

 

c.988

 

Ethelgar

27

 

990

 

Sigeric

28

 

995

 

Aelfric

29

 

1005

 

Alphege

30

 

1013

 

Lyfing

31

 

1020

 

Ethelnoth

32

 

1038

 

Eadsige

33

 

1051

 

Robert of Jumieges

34

 

1052

 

Stigand

35

 

1070

 

Lanfranc

36

 

1093

 

Anselm

37

 

1114

 

Ralph d'Escures

38

 

1123

 

William de Corbeil

39

 

1139

 

Theobald

40

 

1162

 

Thomas a Becket

41

 

1174

 

Richard (of Dover)

42

 

1184

 

Baldwin

43

 

1193

 

Hubert Walter

44

 

1207

 

Stephen Langton

45

 

1229

 

Richard le Grant

46

 

1234

 

Edmund of Abingdon

47

 

1245

 

Boniface of Savoy

48

 

1273

 

Robert Kilwardby

49

 

1279

 

John Peckham

50

 

1294

 

Robert Winchelsey

51

 

1313

 

Walter Reynolds

52

 

1328

 

Simon Meopham

53

 

1333

 

John de Stratford

54

 

1349

 

Simon Islip

55

 

1349

 

Thomas Bradwardine

56

 

1366

 

Simon Langham

57

 

1368

 

William Whittlesey

58

 

1375

 

Simon Sudbury

59

 

1381

 

William Courtenay

60

 

1396

 

Thomas Arundel

61

 

1398

 

Roger Walden

  
 

1399

 

Thomas Arundel (restored)

62

 

1414

 

Henry Chichele

63

 

1443

 

John Stafford

64

 

1452

 

John Kempe

65

 

1454

 

Thomas Bourchier

66

 

1486

 

John Morton

67

 

1501

 

Henry Deane

68

 

1503

 

William Warham

69

 

1533

 

Thomas Cranmer

70

 

1556

 

Reginald Pole

71

 

1559

 

Matthew Parker

72

 

1576

 

Edmund Grindal

73

 

1583

 

John Whitgift

74

 

1604

 

Richard Bancroft

75

 

1611

 

George Abbot

76

 

1633

 

William Laud

77

 

1660

 

William Juxon

78

 

1663

 

Gilbert Sheldon

79

 

1678

 

William Sancroft

80

 

1691

 

John Tillotson

81

 

1695

 

Thomas Tenison

82

 

1716

 

William Wake

83

 

1737

 

John Potter

84

 

1747

 

Thomas Herring

85

 

1757

 

Matthew Hutton

86

 

1758

 

Thomas Secker

87

 

1768

 

Frederick Cornwallis

88

 

1783

 

John Moore

89

 

1805

 

Charles Manners-Sutton

90

 

1828

 

William Howley

91

 

1848

 

John Bird Sumner

92

 

1862

 

Charles Thomas Longley

93

 

1868

 

Archibald Campbell Tait

94

 

1883

 

Edward White Benson

95

 

1896

 

Frederick Temple

96

 

1903

 

Randall Thomas Davidson

97

 

1928

 

William Cosmo Gordon Lang

98

 

1942

 

William Temple

99

 

1945

 

Geoffrey Francis Fisher

100

 

1961

 

Arthur Michael Ramsey

101

 

1974

 

Frederick Donald Coggan

102

 

1980

 

Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie

103

 

1991

 

George Leonard Carey

104

 

2002

 

Rowan Douglas Williams

Source: Archbishop of Canterbury's Web site

There is a somewhat more detailed list of archbishops
from 1066 to the present day on the Lambeth Palace
Library web site here.

this page last revised 6 June 2003
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