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The Archbishops from Augustine to Williams
Archbishops of Canterbury from the year AD 597 to the present day:
| 2002 Rowan Douglas Williams |
| 1991 George Leonard Carey |
| 1980 Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie | |
| 1974 Donald Coggan | |
| 1961 Arthur Michael Ramsey | |
| 1945 Geoffrey Francis Fisher | |
| 1942 William Temple | |
| 1928 William Cosmo Gordon Lang | |
| 1903 Randall Thomas Davidson | |
| 1896 Frederick Temple | |
| 1883 Edward White Benson | |
| 1868 Archibald Campbell Tait | |
| 1862 Charles Thomas Longley | |
| 1848 John Bird Sumner | |
| 1828 William Howley | |
| 1805 Charles Manners-Sutton | |
| 1783 John Moore | |
| 1768 Frederick Cornwallis | |
| 1758 Thomas Secker | |
| 1757 Matthew Hutton | |
| 1747 Thomas Herring | |
| 1737 John Potter | |
| 1716 William Wake | |
| 1695 Thomas Tenison | |
| 1691 John Tillotson | |
| 1678 William Sancroft | |
| 1663 Gilbert Sheldon | |
| 1660 William Juxon | |
| 1633 William Laud | |
| 1611 George Abbot | |
| 1604 Richard Bancroft | |
| 1583 John Whitgift | |
| 1576 Edmund Grindal | |
| 1559 Matthew Parker | |
| 1556 Reginald Pole | ||
| 1533 Thomas Cranmer | |
| 1503 William Warham | |
| 1501 Henry Deane | ||
| 1486 John Morton | ||
| 1454 Thomas Bourchier | ||
| 1452 John Kempe | ||
| 1443 John Stafford | ||
| 1414 Henry Chichele | |
| 1399 Thomas Arundel (restored) | |
1398 Roger Walden 1396 Thomas Arundel 1381 William Courtenay 1375 Simon Sudbury 1368 William Whittlesey 1366 Simon Langham 1349 Thomas Bradwardine 1349 Simon Islip 1333 John de Stratford 1328 Simon Meopham 1313 Walter Reynolds 1294 Robert Winchelsey 1279 John Peckham 1273 Robert Kilwardby 1245 Boniface of Savoy 1234 Edmund of Abingdon 1229 Richard le Grant 1207 Stephen Langton 1193 Hubert Walter 1184 Baldwin 1174 Richard (of Dover) 1162 Thomas a Becket 1139 Theobald 1123 William de Corbeil 1114 Ralph d'Escures 1093 Anselm 1070 Lanfranc 1052 Stigand 1051 Robert of Jumieges 1038 Eadsige 1020 Ethelnoth 1013 Lyfing 1005 Alphege 995 Aelfric 990 Sigeric c.988 Ethelgar 960 Dunstan 959 Aelfsige 959 Brithelm 942 Oda 923 Wulfhelm 914 Athelm 890 Plegmund 870 Ethelred 833 Ceolnoth 832 Feologeld 805 Wulfred 793 Ethelhard 765 Jaenbert 761 Bregowine 740 Cuthbert 735 Nothelm 731 Tatwine 693 Berhtwald 668 Theodore 655 Deusdedit 627 Honorius 624 Justus 619 Mellitus 604 Laurentius |