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Archbishop of Canterbury awards Lambeth Degrees
Tuesday 01 July 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, will today preside over a Lambeth Degree award ceremony in Lambeth Palace Chapel. On this occasion he will award ten degrees.
Lambeth Degree Recipients
The Lambeth Degree is a real academic award. The candidates are exempt from both residential and examination requirements and the special awards are made on merit in recognition of recipients' contribution to religious, academic and public life.
The Archbishop of Canterbury's right to grant degrees is derived from Peter's Pence Act of 1533 which empowered the Archbishop to grant dispensations previously granted by the Pope. The practice began during the time when attendance at Oxford and Cambridge, the only universities at that time in England, was frequently disrupted by the difficulty of travel or outbreaks of the plague. The Archbishop was empowered to grant exemption from the residential requirements necessary for a degree.
Lambeth degrees can be awarded in Divinity, Law, Arts, Literature, Medicine and Music.