Patronages of the Archbishop of Canterbury

The current list includes Honorary Degrees and other Awards pre - 2002 .

Organisation

Archbishop's role

999 Club, Deptford, London SE8Patron

Abbeyfield Society (homes for the elderly)

Patron

ABCD - Action around Bethlehem Children with Disability

Patron

Acorn Christian Healing Trust

Patron

Action for Blind People

Vice-President

Additional Curates Society

President (Ex-Officio)

Airey Neave Trust

Sponsor

Alister Hardy ( Religious Experience) Research Centre, Lampeter University

Patron

All Saints Alive Literature Festival, Oystermouth, Swansea

Patron

All Saints Swansea Church Restoration

Patron

All Souls College, Oxford

Visitor (Ex-Officio)

Allchurches Trust

Trustee (Ex-Officio)

Alliance of Religions & Conservation

Patron

Almshouse Association

Vice-Patron

Anglican and Eastern Churches Association

Patron

Anglican Centre in Rome, The Friends of

President

Anglican Renewal Ministries (Wales)

Spiritual Adviser

Anglican-Lutheran Society

Co-Patron

Patron

St Michael & All Angels CofE Academy (formerly Archbishop Michael Ramsey School), London SE5

Patron

Archbishop Tenison's CE High School, Croydon, Surrey

Nominates governors

Art and Christianity Enquiry

Member, Advisory Board

Association of Anglican Secondary School Heads

Patron

Association of Interchurch Families

President

ATS & WRAC Association Benevolent Funds

Vice-Patron (Ex-Officio)

Barnardo's

Vice-President

Benenden School (Cranbrook, Kent)

Visitor (Ex-Officio)

Bevan Foundation (Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent)

President

Bishop Mubarak Scholarship Fund (Together for Sudan)

Patron

Bishop Simeon CR Trust

Patron

Bleddfa Centre

Patron

Board of Trade

Member (Ex-Officio)

Bocking St Mary Church Restoration Appeal

President

Boys' Brigade

Vice Patron

Brecon Cathedral Choir Endowment Appeal

Vice-President

Bridge, The

British Academy

Patron

Fellow

British Association of Iconographers

Patron

British Epilepsy Association

Vice-President

British Trust for Tantur (Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies in Jerusalem)

President (Ex-Officio)

Bromley and Sheppard's College

Trustee (Ex-Officio)

Burrswood (aka Dorothy Kerin Trust)

President

Caldecott Foundation (educational)

Patron

Cambridge, University of

Hon DD

Cancer Research Campaign - Canterbury Committee

Patron

Canterbury and District Recorder (talking newspaper for visually impaired)

Patron

Canterbury and York Society

Joint President

Canterbury Archaeological Society

Patron

Canterbury Archaeological Trust

Patron

Canterbury Cathedral Old Choristers' Association

Patron

Canterbury Cathedral, Friends of

President

Canterbury Festival

Patron

Canterbury Hospital, League of Friends

Patron

Canterbury Lions Club

Honorary Member

Canterbury Open Centre

Patron

Canterbury Umbrella (Community Support Centre)

Patron

Cardiff Centre for the Study of Religion in Late Antiquity

Friend

Carers National Association

Vice-President

Cautley Trust

Patron

Celebration of Life Rally 2004

Patron of event

Central Board of Finance (CofE)

Joint President (Ex-Officio)

Centre for Anglican Communion Studies (CEFACS)

Patron

Centre for Anglican Studies, Canterbury

Principal Patron

Centre for Contemporary Ministry (Dr Clifford Hill)

Special interest

Centre for Health and Pastoral Care (Holy Rood House, Thirsk, North Yorkshire)

Patron

Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations

Patron

Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations

Patron

Charles Williams Society

President

Charterhouse School

Governor (Ex-Officio)

CHASTE (Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking across Europe)

Patron

Childhood First (formerly Peper Harow Foundation)

Patron

Children's Society, The

President

CHRISM (Christians in Secular Ministry)

Patron

Christ's College, Cambridge

Honorary Fellow

Christian Arts Trust

Patron

Christian Association of Business Executives (CABE)

Patron

Christian Muslim Forum

Founder Patron

Christian Theology Trust

Patron

Christians Aware

President

Church Action on Disability

Patron

Church and Blindness

Special Interest

Church Army

Vice President

Church Commissioners

Chairman (Ex-Officio)

Church Housing Trust

Patron

Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade

President

Church Mission Society

Patron

Church Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses Benevolent Institution

Vice Patron

Church Schools Company

Patron

Church Urban Fund

President (Ex-Officio)

Clare College, Cambridge

Hon. Fellow

College of Preachers

Patron

College of St Barnabas, Lingfield, Surrey

Patron

Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion (CUAC)

Patron

Community of the Presentation Trust

Nominates Trustee (Ex-Officio)

Conservation Foundation Parish Pump Project

Patron

Co-operation Ireland

Patron

Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy

President

Corrymeela Link, Northern Ireland

Patron

Council of Christians and Jews

President

Council of Church Colleges and Universities

Patron

Cranbrook School, Kent

Visitor (Ex-Officio)

Cranleigh and Bramley Schools

Council Member (Ex-Officio)

Crewdson Trust (formerly Trustee)

Patron

Crisis (homeless)

Patron

Culham College Institute

Trustee

David Nicholls Memorial Trust (education facilities and bursaries)

Patron

Demelza House (children's hospice care)

Vice-President

Douai Abbey Library Appeal

Vice-President

Dover Detainee Visitors Group

Patron

Dulwich Society Charities, The

Visitor (Ex-Officio)

Dympna Centre (Retreat House, Harrogate)

Nominates Representatives

East Kent Cyrenians

Patron

Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury, Kent

Patron

Ecclesiastical Law Society

Patron (Ex-Officio)

Eckhart Society

Patron

Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Patron

Elsie Briggs House of Prayer, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol

Patron

Emmaus UK Appeal

Patron

English Churches Housing Group

Patron (Ex-Officio)

Everyone's Child Romania

Patron

Fathers Direct

Special Interest

Family Welfare Association

President

Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius

Patron

Five Talents International

Patron

FLAME (Family Life and Marriage Education)

Patron

Fresh Expressions

Special Interest

Friends of Cathedral Music

Patron

Friends of Kent Churches

Patron

Friends of Swansea St Mary

Vice-President

Friends of the Clergy Corporation

Patron

Friends of the Elderly and Gentlefolk's Help

Patron

General Synod of the Church of England

Co-President (Ex-Officio)

Girl Guides Association Religious Advisory Council

Nominates Representative (Ex-Officio)

Girls' Brigade

Vice-President

Girls' Friendly Society and Townsend Fellowship

Joint President (Ex-Officio)

Gospel and Our Culture

Patron

Great Britain-Russia Society

Honorary Vice-President

Greenbelt Festivals

Patron

Gregorian Association

President

Guild of Church Musicians

Patron

Guild of St Raphael (The)

Joint President (Ex-Officio)

Guild of Vergers

Joint President (Ex-Officio)

Haileybury School

Visitor (Ex-Officio)

Harrow School

Visitor (Ex-Officio)

Health for All

Patron

Help the Homeless

President

Historic Churches Preservation Trust

Joint President (Ex-Officio)

Hope 2008

Member, Board of Reference

Hospital of the Blessed Trinity, Guildford (Abbot's Hospital)

Visitor (Ex-Officio)

Hospital of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Croydon

Patron (Ex-Officio)

Housing the Homeless

Patron

Howard de Walden Club Charity

Nominates Trustee (Ex-Officio)

Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Honorary President

I Can (Invalid Children's Aid Nationwide)

Vice-President

Imperial War Museum, Friends of the

Patron

In The Choir

Patron

Incorporated Church Building Society (now National Churches Trust)

President (Ex-Officio)

Industrial Christian Fellowship

President

INFORM (agency providing information on alternative spirituality and alternative religious movements)

Patron

Inner Temple, Honourable Society of the

Honorary Master of the Bench

Inter-Church Travel Advisory Committee

Appoints Representative (Ex-Officio)

Intercontinental Church Society

Vice-Patron

Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (Cambridge)

Member of Honorary and Ecumenical Committee (2006)

The Order of Jacob's Well

Patron

Jerusalem and Middle East Church Association

Patron (Ex-officio)

John Mason Neale Society

Patron

John Smith Memorial Trust

Patron

Josef Herman Art Foundation, Cymru

Patron

Keble College, Oxford

Visitor

Kent Archaeological Society

Patron

Kent County Association of Change Ringers

President

Kent County Cricket Club

Annual Honorary Member

Kent County Organists' Association

Patron

Keston Institute

Patron

King's College School, Wimbledon

Visitor

King's College, Halifax (Canada)

Patron

King's College, London

Visitor and Presentation Fellow

King's School Canterbury

Visitor (ex-officio)

Lambeth and Southwark Housing Society

President

Lambeth Palace Library Trustees

Chairman

L'Eglise Protestante Francaise de Canterbury

Trustee

Leprosy Mission

Vice President

Li Tim-Oi Foundation

Patron

London and Middlesex Archaeological Society

Patron

London Stained Glass Repositories

Friend

Lord Kitchener Memorial Fund

Vice Patron

Magdalen Hospital Trust

Appoints Trustee

Margaret Beaufort Appeal

Patron

Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge

Patron

Marlborough College

Visitor

Meissen Library Appeal, Durham Cathedral

Patron

Melanesian Mission

President

Meningitis Trust

Patron

Mental After Care Association (Together)

Vice-President

Merton College, Oxford

Visitor

Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem

Ecclesiastical Commander

MIND (National Association for Mental Health)

Vice-President

Morning Star Sangha

Founder and Adviser

Morriston Orpheus Choir

Vice-President

Mothers' Union

Patron

Murray Cox Foundation

Patron

NAME (Network for Anglican Mission and Evangelism)

Patron

Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary, Wisconsin USA

Hon. DD

National Society for Promoting Religious Education, (The)

President

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)

Patron (Ex officio)

NSPCC: East Kent & Canterbury Branch

Patron

National Youth Agency

Patron

Naval, Military and Air Force Bible Society

Patron

New Assembly of Churches

Patron

Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum Trust

Patron

Open University

Hon. DD

Order of St. John Priory for Wales

Confrere

Ouseley Trust (musical and choral education)

Appoints Trustee

Palestine Exploration Fund

President

Parish Clerks', Worshipful Company of

Patron

Paul Moore Clinic, East Timor

International Advisory Board Member

Pax Christi (International Catholic peace movement)

Vice-President

Peace Mala

Patron

Pershore, Nashdom and Elmore Trust

Nominates trustees (ex officio)

Philip Usher Memorial Fund

Chairman of the Trustees

Philo Trust

Patron

Pilgrims, The

Vice-President

Prisoners Abroad

Sponsor

Prisons Week

Patron

Pro-Life Day

Patron

Professional Classes Aid Council

Patron

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Faversham

Appoints 2 Foundation Governors

Ralph Snow's Charity

Appoints Trustees

Religious Drama Society (RADIUS)

Patron

Richmond Fellowship (charity for disabled)

Vice Patron

Riding Lights Theatre Company

President

Ridley Hall, Cambridge

Visitor

Right Hand Trust (enabling students to spend gap year in Africa)

Patron

Right to Life Charitable Trust

Supporter

Rock of Ages Campaign (Gibraltar Cathedral Appeal)

Patron

Roehampton University

Hon DD

Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust

Patron

Royal College of Music

Vice-President

Royal College of Organists

Vice Patron

Royal National College for the Blind

Vice-President

Royal School for the Deaf, Margate

President

Royal School of Church Music

President

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)

Vice Patron

Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association (aka Independent Age)

Patron

Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation

President

Rural Stress Information Network

Patron

Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George

Member

Saferworld

Patron

Sargent Cancer Care for Children

Patron

Scout Association

Member of Council

Seafarers UK (formerly King George's Fund for Sailors)

Vice-President

Selwyn College, Cambridge

Visitor

Shaftesbury Society

Vice-President

Shalom Centre, Maidstone, Kent

Patron

Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham

Patron of the Walsingham Appeal 2006

Smith's Charity

Appoints Trustee

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK)

President

Society of Catholic Priests

Patron

South East Institute for Theological Education

President

Sri Lanka Link (Goudhurst Parish, Kent)

Patron

St Alphege Church, Seasalter (Whitstable, Kent) - Building Project

Patron

St Andrew's (Ecumenical) Trust

Patron

St Briavels Centre for Child Development

Patron

St Catherine Foundation

Patron

St Christopher's Educational Trust

Nominates trustee

St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Flintshire

Patron

St Edmund's School, Canterbury

President: appoints 1 Governor

St Ethelburgha's Centre for the Preventing & Transforming of Conflict

Patron

St. George's College, Jerusalem

Patron

St John's School Leatherhead

Visitor

St John's and St Nicholas' Hospitals, Canterbury

Patron

St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy

President

St Mary le Bow Organ Appeal, London WC2

Patron

St Peter and St Paul Saltwood Development Appeal

Patron

St Woolos Cathedral Rescue Appeal

Ecclesiastical President

Stationers, Worshipful Company of

Patron

Sue Ryder Care

Patron

(Sutton's Hospital) Charterhouse, London EC1

Governor

The Anglican and Old Catholic Society of St Willibrord

Joint Patron

Three Choirs Festival

Patron

Toc H

President

Tomorrow Project (faith trends & work in 21st Century)

Patron

Trinity Institute for Contemporary Christianity

Patron

Trust of St Seraphim and St Francis

Joint Patron with the Patriarch of Moscow

Try Angle Awards (recognition of young people who are not high flyers)

Patron

Tyndale Society, The

Patron

United Nations Association

Patron

United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG)

President

University College, Swansea

Hon. Fellow

University of Aberdeen

Hon. DD

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany

Hon. DTheol

University of Exeter

Hon. DD

University of Kent at Canterbury

Visitor, Hon. DD

University of Kent at Canterbury - Darwin College

Honorary Senior Member

University of Oxford

Hon. DD

University of Wales College, Newport, Gwent

Hon. Fellow

University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Hon. DD

Vacation Term for Biblical Study

Patron

Victory Outreach UK

Patron

Wadham College, Oxford

Honorary Fellow

Walsingham Community Homes

Patron

Wax Chandlers, Worshipful Company of

Honorary Liveryman

Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire

Governor

Welsh Livery Guild

Hon Liveryman

Welsh Music Guild

Vice-President

Westcott House, Cambridge

Visitor

Whitgift Foundation (schools and almshouses in Croydon)

Visitor, Appoints 6 Governors

Wireless for the Bedridden

President

Women Caring Trust (helping children of Northern Ireland)

Patron

Wycliffe Hall, Oxford

Patron/Visitor

Wye College, Imperial College, University of London

Visitor

Zacchaeus 2000 Trust

Patron

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