List of archbishops of Canterbury

Before the Reformation, the archbishop served as a prelate of the Catholic Church.In the Middle Ages there was considerable variation in the nomination procedure of the archbishop and other bishops.At various times the nomination was made by the Canons of Canterbury Cathedral, the English monarch, or the Pope.[3][4] Since the Reformation, the church is explicitly a state church and nomination is legally that of the British crown; today it is made in the name of the monarch by the prime minister of the United Kingdom, from a shortlist of two selected by the Crown Nominations Commission, an ad hoc committee.[7] Those who have assisted the diocesan archbishop have included: Two coadjutors – called Bishop of St Martin's — to Saxon archbishops:[81] Lanfranc declared that appointments to that See would cease, and the Bishop of Rochester would deputise instead.

Three plaques on a wall, inscribed with the lists of the archbishops. In front of the plaques is a table with two candlesticks flanking an upright cross. — List of the archbishops of Canterbury up to Rowan Williams (2002–2012), in Canterbury Cathedral

Arms of Langton: Argent, a cross quarter-pierced gules (start of heraldic era circa 1215)

Arms of Saint Edmund of Abingdon: Or, a cross patonce gules between four Cornish choughs proper (now used by St Edmund Hall, Oxford )

Arms of Savoy: Gules, a cross argent

Arms of Stratford: Barry of ten argent and azure, a lion rampant gules langued or

Arms of Ufford: Sable, a cross engrailed or in chief two escallops argent

Arms of Courtenay: Or, three torteaux a label azure

Arms of FitzAlan: Gules, a lion rampant or

Arms of Chichele: Or, a chevron between three cinquefoils gules

Arms of Stafford: Or, a chevron gules

Arms of Bourchier: Argent, a cross engrailed gules between four water bougets sable

Arms of Morton: Quarterly 1st & 4th: Gules, a goat's head erased armed argent; 2nd & 3rd: Ermine ^{[

56

]}

Arms of Warham: Gules, a fess or in chief a goat's head couped argent attired or in base three escallops two and one of the third ^{[

57

]}

Arms of Bishop Cranmer: Argent, on a chevron azure between three pelicans sable vulning themselves proper as many cinquefoils or ^{[

59

]}

Arms of Pole (2nd quarter): Per pale or and sable, a saltire engrailed counterchanged

Rowan WilliamsArchbishop of CanterburyPrimateEnglandChurch of EnglandAnglican CommunionReformationCatholic Churchfull communionBishops of RomecanonisedEnglish ReformationCanonsCanterbury CathedralEnglish monarchBritish crownprime minister of the United KingdomCrown Nominations CommissiondiocesanDiocese of CanterburySurreyAugustine of CanterburybishopricBishop of Dovermetropolitan bishopProvince of CanterburyProvince of Yorkarchbishop of YorkChurch in WalesBritish sovereignsupreme governor of the Church of Englandprimus inter paresAnglicanprimatesSt Mary-at-LambethLambeth PalacetranslatedAugustineLaurenceMellitusLondonJustusRochesterHonoriusDeusdeditWighardTheodoreBerhtwaldReculverTatwineNothhelmCuthbertHerefordBregowineJænberhtÆthelhardWulfredFeologildCeolnothÆthelredPlegmundKing AlfredAthelmWulfhelmRamsburyÆlfsigeByrhthelmDunstanÆthelgarSelseySigericÆlfric of AbingdonWinchesterÆlfheahGreenwichLyfingÆthelnothDean of CanterburyEadsigeRobert of JumiègesStigandBishop of WinchesterLanfrancSt. ÉtienneAnselmRalph d'EscuresWilliam de CorbeilTheobald of BecThomas BecketArchdeacon of CanterburyLord ChancellorRoger de BailleulRichardBaldwin of FordeWorcesterReginald Fitz JocelinPope Celestine IIIHubert WalterSalisburyChief JusticiarReginaldInnocent IIIJohn de GrayBishop of NorwichPope Innocent IIIStephen Langtoncardinalheraldic eraWalter d'EynshamHenry III of EnglandPope Gregory IXRichard le Grantsee of LincolnRalph NevilleBishop of ChichesterJohn of SittingbourneJohn BlundEdmund of Abingdoncross patonceCornish choughsproperSt Edmund Hall, OxfordBoniface of SavoyBelleyWilliam ChillendenPope Gregory XRobert KilwardbyRobert BurnellBishop of Bath & WellsPope Nicholas IIIJohn PeckhamRobert WinchelseyThomas CobhamWalter ReynoldsSimon MepehamJohn de StratfordJohn de UffordThomas BradwardineSimon IslipWilliam EdingtonSimon LanghamPope Gregory XIWilliam WhittleseySimon SudburyPeasants' RevoltWilliam CourtenaytorteauxThomas ArundelRichard IIRoger WaldenHenry IVHenry ChicheleSt David'sJohn StaffordBath & WellsLord TreasurerJohn KempThomas BourchierJohn MortonThomas LangtonHenry DeaneWilliam WarhamThomas Cranmerpelicansvulning themselvesReginald Polediocesan administratorElizabethan SettlementMatthew ParkerLincolnEdmund GrindalJohn WhitgiftRichard BancroftGeorge AbbotWilliam LaudEpiscopal ChurchCommonwealthProtectorateWilliam JuxonGilbert SheldonWilliam SancroftWilliamJohn TillotsonThomas TenisonWilliam WakeJohn PotterOxfordThomas HerringMatthew HuttonThomas SeckerFrederick CornwallisLichfield & CoventryJohn MooreBangorCharles Manners-SuttonNorwichWilliam HowleyJohn Bird SumnerChester