Erkebiskop av Canterbury
Sittende Justin Welby siden 4. februar 2013
Type		Primas
Virkeområde		Den anglikanske kirke
Tiltaleform		Most Reverend
Residens		Lambeth Palace
Utpekes av		Storbritannias monark i egenskap av kirkens overhode
Etablert		597; 1426 år siden (597)
Første embedsholder		Augustin av Canterbury
Nettsted		http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/
Erstatter		romersk-katolsk erkebiskop av Canterbury (17. november 1558 (Julian))

Erkebiskopen av Canterbury er den fremste av de to erkebiskopene i Den engelske kirke, og preses for Den anglikanske kirke. Alle overhyrdene i Canterbury erkebispedømme regnes med i en ubrutt rekke helt siden katolsk tid.

Erkebiskopen er den personen som kroner den britiske monarken.

Erkebiskoper av Cantebury

Katolske erkebiskoper 601–1532

• St. Augustin (601–605)
• Laurentius (605–619)
• St. Mellitus (619–624)
• St. Justus (624–627)
• St. Honorius (627–653)
• St. Deusdedit (655–664)
• Wighard (664)
• Adrian (664)
• vakant (664–668)
• St. Theodor (668–690)
• St. Bertwald (693–731)
• St. Tatwin (731–734)
• St. Nothelm (734–740)
• St. Cuthbert (740–758)
• St. Bregwin (759–762)
• St. Jaenbert (763–790)
• St. Aethelhard (790–803)
• Wulfred (803–829)
• Feologild (829–830)
• Ceolnoth (830–870)
• Aethelred (870–889)
• Plegmund (891–923)
• Athelm (923–925)
• Wulfhelm (928–941)
• St. Oda den strenge (St) (942–958)
• Ælfsige (958–959)
• St. Dunstan (960–988)
• Athelgar (988–989)
• Sigeric den alvorlige (990–994)
• Aelfric (995–1005)
• St. Alphege) (1006–1012)
• Lyfing (1013–1020)
• Aethelnoth (1020–1038)
• Edsige (1038–1050)
• Robert (1051–1052)
• Stigand (1052–1070)
• Lanfranc (1070–1089)
• St. Anselm (1093–1109)
• Ralph d'Escures (1114–1122)
• William de Corbeil (1123–1136)
• Theobald av Bec (1139–1161)
• St. Thomas Becket (1162–1170)
• Richard av Dover (1174–1184)
• Baldwin of Exeter (1185–1190)
• Reginald Fitz-Jocelin (1191)
• Hubert Walter (1193–1205)
• Stephen Langton (1207–1228)
• Walter d'Eynsham (1229–1231)
• St. Edmund Rich (St) (1233–1240)
• Bonifatius av Savoy (1240–1270)
• Robert Kilwardby (1273–1278)
• John Peckham (1279–1292)
• Robert Winchelsey (1293–1313)
• Walter Reynolds (1313–1327)
• Simon Mepeham (1327–1333)
• John de Stratford (1333–1348)
• John de Ufford (1348–1349)
• Thomas Bradwardine (1349)
• Simon Islip (1349–1366)
• Simon Langham (1366–1368)
• William Whittlesey (1368–1374)
• Simon Sudbury (1375–1381)
• William Courtenay (1381–1396)
• Thomas Arundel (1396–1414)
• Henry Chicheley (1414–1443)
• John Stafford (1443–1452)
• John Kemp (1452–1454)
• Thomas Bourchier (1454–1486)
• John Morton (1486–1500)
• Henry Deane (1501–1503)
• William Warham (1503–1532)

Anglikansk erkebiskop 1533–1556

• Thomas Cranmer (1533–1556)

Katolsk erkebiskop 1556–1558

• Kardinal Reginald Pole (1556–1558)

Anglikanske erkebiskoper fra 1559

• Matthew Parker (1559–1575)
• Edmund Grindal (1575–1583)
• John Whitgift (1583–1604)
• Richard Bancroft (1604–1610)
• George Abbot (1611–1633)
• William Laud (1633–1645)
• William Juxon (1660–1663)
• Gilbert Sheldon (1663–1667)
• William Sancroft (1678–1691)
• John Tillotson (1691–1694)
• Thomas Tenison (1694–1715)
• William Wake (1716–1737)
• John Potter (1737–1747)
• Thomas Herring (1747–1757)
• Matthew Hutton (1757–1758)
• Thomas Secker (1758–1768)
• Frederick Cornwallis (1768–1783)
• John Moore (1783–1805)
• Charles Manners-Sutton (1805–1828)
• William Howley (1828–1848)
• John Bird Sumner (1848–1862)
• Charles Thomas Longley (1862–1868)
• Archibald Campbell Tait (1868–1882)
• Edward White Benson (1882–1896)
• Frederick Temple (1896–1902)
• Randall Thomas Davidson (1903–1928)
• Cosmo Gordon Lang (1928–1942)
• William Temple (1942–1944)
• Geoffrey Francis Fisher (1945–1961)
• Arthur Michael Ramsey (1961–1974)
• Frederick Donald Coggan (1974–1980)
• Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie (1980–1991)
• George Leonard Carey (1991–2002)
• Rowan Douglas Williams (2002–2012)
• Justin Welby (2012–)

Se også

• Canterbury erkebispedømme
• Liste over erkebiskoper av York

Referanser

Eksterne lenker

• The Archbishop of Cantebury, offisielt nettsted for dagens erkebiskop