10 May 2006
Nursing, Dignity and Florence Nightingale - Sermon at Westminster Abbey
Sermon at Westminster Abbey for the Annual Florence Nightingale Commemoration Service for the Nursing Profession.

April 2006

23 April 2006
A Sermon for Shakespeare Sunday
On St. George's Day, a sermon on poetry and prophesy for the birthday of William Shakespeare, delivered at Holy Trinity, Stratford - upon- Avon. Known as 'Shakespeare's Church', he was both baptised and later buried here.

16 April 2006
Easter Day Sermon at Canterbury Cathedral
The Archbishop's Easter Day sermon at Canterbury Cathedral focused on themes of trust, conspiracy and the truth revealed by the Gospels.

March 2006

21 March 2006
The Martyrdom of Thomas Cranmer - Sermon at Service to Commemorate the 450th Anniversary.
The Archbishop gave the following sermon at the invitation of the Prayer Book Society, who held a commemorative service at St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, to mark the 450th anniversary of the martyrdom of Thomas Cranmer, author of the Book of Common Prayer.

February 2006

26 February 2006
Address to worshippers in the compound of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, Khartoum
The Archbishop visited southern Sudan, to offer support to Christian communities and to those projects relieving the suffering of the Sudanese, especially those displaced by conflict in the north.

26 February 2006
Sudan - Sermon at a Displaced Person's Camp in Khartoum
The Archbishop visited southern Sudan, to offer support to Christian communities and to those projects relieving suffering. The sermon was given at Al Gariya, an Internally Displaced Persons' Camp outside Khartoum.

07 February 2006
Archbishop's Sermon at Eucharist Service, Church of England General Synod
The Church of England's governing body, the General Synod, met in London in February 2006. Proceedings began with a Eucharist service and the Archbishop of Canterbury's sermon is reproduced below.

05 February 2006
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Centenary Service, Sermon at St Matthaus Church, Berlin
This is the English translation of a German sermon at a service to mark the centenary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's birth, at St Matthaus Church in Berlin.

January 2006

22 January 2006
Rudyard Kipling Sermon
The following sermon was given at a service to mark the 70th anniversary of the death of the British writer Rudyard Kipling. It was given in St. Bartholomew's Burwash, the Sussex village close to Kipling's old home, Bateman's.