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Canterbury

Description of arms. Azure, an archiepiscopal cross in pale or surmounted by a pall proper charged with four crosses patée fitchée sable.

 597 Augustine

 604 Laurentius

 619 Mellitus

 624 Justus

 627 Honorius

 655 Deusdedit

 668 Theodorus

 693 Berhtwald

 731 Tatwine

 735 Nothelm

 740 Cuthbert

 761 Bregowine

 765 Jaenberht

 793 Æthelheard

 805 Wulfred

 832 Feologild

 833 Ceolnoth

 870 Æthelred

 890 Plegmund

 914 Æthelhelm

 923 Wulfhelm

 942 Oda

 959 Ælfsige

 959 Byrhthelm

 960 Dunstan

c.988 Athelgar

 990 Sigeric Serio

 995 Ælfric

1005 ÆIfheah

1013 Lyfing [Ælfstan]

1020 Æthelnoth

1038 Eadsige

1051 Robert of Jumièges

1052 Stigand

1070 Lanfranc

1093 Anselm

1114 Ralph d’Escures

1123 William de Corbeil

1139 Theobald of Bec

1162 Thomas Becket

1174 Richard [of Dover]

1184 Baldwin

1193 Hubert Walter

1207 Stephen Langton

1229 Richard le Grant

1234 Edmund Rich

1245 Boniface of Savoy

1273 Robert Kilwardby

1279 John Pecham

1294 Robert Winchelsey

1313 Walter Reynolds

1328 Simon Mepham

1333 John Stratford

1349 Thomas Bradwardine

1349 Simon Islip

1366 Simon Langham

1368 William Whittlesey

1375 Simon Sudbury

1381 William Courtenay

1396 Thomas Arundel[1]

1398 Roger Walden

1414 Henry Chichele

1443 John Stafford

1452 John Kempe

1454 Thomas Bourgchier

1486 John Morton

1501 Henry Deane

1503 William Warham

1533 Thomas Cranmer

1556 Reginald Pole

1559 Matthew Parker

1576 Edmund Grindal

1583 John Whitgift

1604 Richard Bancroft

1611 George Abbot

1633 William Laud

1660 William Juxon

1663 Gilbert Sheldon

1678 William Sancroft

1691 John Tillotson

1695 Thomas Tenison

1716 William Wake

1737 John Potter

1747 Thomas Herring

1757 Matthew Hutton

1758 Thomas Secker

1768 Frederick Cornwallis

1783 John Moore

1805 Charles Manners Sutton

1828 William Howley

1848 John Bird Sumner

1862 Charles Thomas Longley

1868 Archibald Campbell Tait

1883 Edward White Benson

1896 Frederick Temple

1903 Randall Thomas Davidson

1928 Cosmo Gordon Lang

1942 William Temple

1945 Geoffrey Francis Fisher

1961 Arthur Michael Ramsey

1974 Frederick Donald Coggan

1980 Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie

1991 George Leonard Carey

2002 Rowan Douglas Williams

2013 Justin Portal Welby

 

SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS

Dover

1537 Richard Yngworth

1545 Richard Thornden

1557–69 no appointment

1569 Richard Rogers

1597–1870 in abeyance

1870 Edward Parry

1890 George Rodney Eden

1898 William Walsh

1916 Harold Ernest Bilbrough

1927 John Victor Macmillan

1935 Alfred Careywollaston Rose

1957 Lewis Evan Meredith

1964 Anthony Paul Tremlett

1980 Richard Henry McPhail Third

1992 John Richard Allan Llewellin

1999 Stephen Squires Venner

2010 Trevor Willmott

2019 Rose Josephine Hudson-Wilkin

Ebbsfleet

1994 John Richards

1998 Michael Alan Houghton

2000 Andrew Burnham

2011 Jonathan Mark Richard Baker

2013 Jonathan Michael Goodall

2023 Robert Speight Munro

Richborough

1995 Edwin Ronald Barnes

2002 Keith Newton

2011 Norman Banks

 

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[1] On 19 October 1399 Boniface IX annulled Arundel's translation to St Andrews and confirmed him in the See of Canterbury.