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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 SE8 | Patron |
Abbeyfield Society (homes for the elderly) | Patron |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Vice-President | |
President (Ex-Officio) | |
Sponsor | |
Alister Hardy ( Religious Experience) Research Centre, Lampeter University | Patron |
Patron | |
All Saints Swansea Church Restoration | Patron |
Visitor (Ex-Officio) | |
Trustee (Ex-Officio) | |
Patron | |
Vice-Patron | |
Patron | |
Anglican Centre in Rome, The Friends of | President |
Spiritual Adviser | |
Co-Patron | |
| Aptitude Trust | Patron |
Patron | |
St Michael & All Angels CofE Academy (formerly Archbishop Michael Ramsey School), London SE5 | Patron |
Nominates governors | |
Member, Advisory Board | |
Association of Anglican Secondary School Heads | Patron |
President | |
Vice-Patron (Ex-Officio) | |
Vice-President | |
Visitor (Ex-Officio) | |
President | |
Bishop Mubarak Scholarship Fund (Together for Sudan) | Patron |
Patron | |
| Patron | |
Board of Trade | Member (Ex-Officio) |
Bocking St Mary Church Restoration Appeal | President |
Vice Patron | |
Vice-President | |
Bridge, The | Patron Fellow |
Patron | |
Vice-President | |
British Trust for Tantur (Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies in Jerusalem) | President (Ex-Officio) |
Trustee (Ex-Officio) | |
President | |
Caldecott Foundation (educational) | Patron |
Hon DD | |
Cancer Research Campaign - Canterbury Committee | Patron |
Canterbury and District Recorder (talking newspaper for visually impaired) | Patron |
Joint President | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
President | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Honorary Member | |
Patron | |
Canterbury Umbrella (Community Support Centre) | Patron |
Friend | |
Vice-President | |
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 |
Special interest | |
Centre for Health and Pastoral Care (Holy Rood House, Thirsk, North Yorkshire) | Patron |
Patron | |
Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations | Patron |
President | |
Governor (Ex-Officio) | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
President | |
Patron | |
Honorary Fellow | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Founder Patron | |
Christian Theology Trust | Patron |
President | |
Church Action on Disability | Patron |
Special Interest | |
Vice President | |
Chairman (Ex-Officio) | |
Patron | |
President | |
Patron | |
Church Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses Benevolent Institution | Vice Patron |
Patron | |
President (Ex-Officio) | |
Hon. Fellow | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Community of the Presentation Trust | Nominates Trustee (Ex-Officio) |
| Community of the Resurrection | Patron |
Patron | |
Patron | |
President | |
Patron | |
President | |
Council of Church Colleges and Universities | Patron |
Visitor (Ex-Officio) | |
Cranleigh and Bramley Schools | Council Member (Ex-Officio) |
Crewdson Trust (formerly Trustee) | Patron |
Patron | |
Trustee | |
David Nicholls Memorial Trust (education facilities and bursaries) | Patron |
Vice-President | |
| Deptford Reach | Patron |
Vice-President | |
Patron | |
Visitor (Ex-Officio) | |
Nominates Representatives | |
Patron | |
Patron (Ex-Officio) | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Emmaus UK Appeal | Patron |
Patron (Ex-Officio) | |
Patron | |
Special Interest | |
President | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Special Interest | |
Patron | |
| Patron | |
Vice-President | |
Friends of the Clergy Corporation | Patron |
Friends of the Elderly and Gentlefolk's Help | Patron |
Co-President (Ex-Officio) | |
Girl Guides Association Religious Advisory Council | Nominates Representative (Ex-Officio) |
Vice-President | |
Joint President (Ex-Officio) | |
Patron | |
Honorary Vice-President | |
Patron | |
President | |
Patron | |
Guild of St Raphael (The) | Joint President (Ex-Officio) |
Joint President (Ex-Officio) | |
Visitor (Ex-Officio) | |
Visitor (Ex-Officio) | |
Patron | |
Help the Homeless | President |
Joint President (Ex-Officio) | |
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) |
Honorary President | |
Vice-President | |
Patron | |
In The Choir | Patron |
Incorporated Church Building Society (now National Churches Trust) | President (Ex-Officio) |
President | |
INFORM (agency providing information on alternative spirituality and alternative religious movements) | Patron |
Inner Temple, Honourable Society of the | Honorary Master of the Bench |
| Institut d'études anglicanes francophones à Québec (IEAFQ) | Patron |
Inter-Church Travel Advisory Committee | Appoints Representative (Ex-Officio) |
Vice-Patron | |
Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (Cambridge) | Member of Honorary and Ecumenical Committee (2006) |
| Honorary Patron | |
The Order of Jacob's Well | Patron |
Patron (Ex-officio) | |
John Mason Neale Society | Patron |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Visitor | |
Patron | |
President | |
Annual Honorary Member | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Visitor | |
King's College, Halifax (Canada) | Patron |
Visitor and Presentation Fellow | |
Visitor (ex-officio) | |
Lambeth and Southwark Housing Society | President |
Chairman | |
L'Eglise Protestante Francaise de Canterbury | Trustee |
Vice President | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Friend | |
Vice Patron | |
Magdalen Hospital Trust | Appoints Trustee |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Visitor | |
Patron | |
President | |
Patron | |
Mental After Care Association (Together) | Vice-President |
Visitor | |
Ecclesiastical Commander | |
MIND (National Association for Mental Health) | Vice-President |
Morning Star Sangha | Founder and Adviser |
Vice-President | |
Patron | |
Murray Cox Foundation | Patron |
NAME (Network for Anglican Mission and Evangelism) | Patron |
Hon. DD | |
President | |
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) | Patron (Ex officio) |
NSPCC: East Kent & Canterbury Branch | Patron |
Patron | |
Patron | |
New Assembly of Churches | Patron |
Patron | |
Hon. DD | |
Confrere | |
Ouseley Trust (musical and choral education) | Appoints Trustee |
President | |
Patron | |
Paul Moore Clinic, East Timor | International Advisory Board Member |
Pax Christi (International Catholic peace movement) | Vice-President |
Patron | |
Nominates trustees (ex officio) | |
Philip Usher Memorial Fund | Chairman of the Trustees |
Patron | |
Pilgrims, The | Vice-President |
| Porchlight | Patron |
Sponsor | |
Patron | |
Pro-Life Day | Patron |
Patron | |
Appoints 2 Foundation Governors | |
Ralph Snow's Charity | Appoints Trustees |
Religious Drama Society (RADIUS) | Patron |
Richmond Fellowship (charity for disabled) | Vice Patron |
President | |
Visitor | |
Right Hand Trust (enabling students to spend gap year in Africa) | Patron |
Supporter | |
Rock of Ages Campaign (Gibraltar Cathedral Appeal) | Patron |
Hon DD | |
Patron | |
Vice-President | |
Vice Patron | |
Vice-President | |
President | |
President | |
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) | Vice Patron |
Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association (aka Independent Age) | Patron |
President | |
Patron | |
Member | |
Patron | |
| Patron | |
Member of Council | |
Seafarers UK (formerly King George's Fund for Sailors) | Vice-President |
Visitor | |
Vice-President | |
Patron | |
Patron of the Walsingham Appeal 2006 | |
Appoints Trustee | |
President | |
Patron | |
| Society of Mary and Martha | Patron |
President | |
Sri Lanka Link (Goudhurst Parish, Kent) | Patron |
St Alphege Church, Seasalter (Whitstable, Kent) - Building Project | Patron |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Nominates trustee | |
Patron | |
President: appoints 1 Governor | |
St Ethelburgha's Centre for the Preventing & Transforming of Conflict | Patron |
Patron | |
Visitor | |
St John's and St Nicholas' Hospitals, Canterbury | Patron |
President | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Ecclesiastical President | |
Patron | |
Patron | |
Governor | |
Joint Patron | |
| Three Choirs Festival | Patron |
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 |
Patron | |
Patron | |
President | |
Hon. Fellow | |
Hon. DD | |
Hon. DTheol | |
Hon. DD | |
Visitor, Hon. DD | |
University of Kent at Canterbury - Darwin College | Honorary Senior Member |
Hon. DD | |
Hon. Fellow | |
Hon. DD | |
Patron | |
Victory Outreach UK | Patron |
Honorary Fellow | |
Patron | |
Honorary Liveryman | |
Governor | |
Hon Liveryman | |
Vice-President | |
Visitor | |
Visitor, Appoints 6 Governors | |
President | |
Patron | |
Patron/Visitor | |
Visitor | |
Patron | |

