List of the Archbishops of Canterbury

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Pre-Reformation Arbishops (Roman Catholic)

Post-Reformation Archbishops (Protestant/Anglican)

597 to 605 Augustine 605 to 619 Lawrence 619 to 624 Mellitus 624 to 627 Justus 627 to 653 Honorius 655 to 664 Deseeded (first English Archbishop of Canterbury) 664 Wighard 664 Adrian 664 to 668 vacant 668 to 690 Theodore 693 to 731 Bertwald 731 to 734 Tatwin 735 to 740 Nothelm 741 to 758 Cuthbert 759 to 764 Bregwin 766 to 791 Lambert 793 to 805 Ethelhard 805 to 832 Wulfred 832 to 832 Syred 832 to 832 Theolgild 833 to 870 Ceolnoth 870 to 889 Ethelred 890 to 914 Plegmund 914 to 923 Adelmus 923 to 941 Wulfhelm 942 to 958 Odo 959 to 959 Alfsin 959 to 959 Birthelm 960 to 988 Dunstan 988 to 989 Athelgar 990 to 994 Sigeric 995 to 1005 Elfric 1006 to 1012 Alphege 1013 to 1020 Lyfing 1020 to 1038 Ethelnoth 1038 to 1050 Edsige 1051 to 1052 Robert Gemeticensis 1052 to 1070 Stigand 1070 to 1089 Lanfrac 1093 to 1109 Anselm 1109 to 1114 vacant 1114 to 1122 Ralph d’Escures 1123 to 1136 William de Corbois 1136 to 1139 vacant 1139 to1161 Theobold of Bec 1161 to 1162 vacant 162 to 1170 Thomas Becket 1174 to 1184 Richard of Dover 1185 to 1190 Baldwin of Exeter 1191 to 1191 Reginald Fritz Jocelin 1191 to 1193 vacant 1193 to 1205 Hubert Walter 1205 to 1206 Reginald 1206 to 1207 John Grey 1207 to 1228 Cardinal Stephen Langston 1229 to 1231 Walter de Hempsham 1229 Richard le Grant 1231 Ralph Neville 1232 John of Sittingbourne 1232 John Blund 1233 to 1240 Edmund Rich 1240 to 1270 Boniface of Savoy 1270 to 1270 William Chillenden 1273 to 1278 Robert Kilwardby 1278 to 1278 Robert Burnell 1279 to 1292 John Peckham 1294 to 1313 Robert Winchelsey 1313 to 1313 Thomas Cobham 1313 to 1327 Walter Reynolds 1328 to 1333 Simon Meopham 1333 to 1348 John de Stratford 1348 to 1349 John de Ufford 1349 to 1349 Thomas Bradwardine 1349 to 1366 Simon Islip 1366 to 1366 William Edendon 1366 to 1368 Simon Langham 1368 to 1374 William Wittlesey 1375 to 1381 Simon de Sudbury 1381 to 1396 William Courteney 1397 to 1398 Thomas Arundel (charged with high-treason; fled) 1398 to 1399 Roger Walden 1397 to 1414 Thomas Arundel (restored) 1414 to 1443 Henry Chicheley 1443 to 1452 John Stafford 1452 to 1454 John Kemp 1454 to 1486 Thomas Bourchier 1486 to 1500 John Morton 1501 Thomas Langton 1501 to 1503 Henry Deane 1503 to 1532 William Warham 1533 to 1556 Thomas Cranmer (openly Protestant from 1547; executed 1557) 1557 to 1558 Reginald Pole (last archbishop in communion with Rome)

1559 to 1575 Matthew Parker 1575 to 1583 Edmund Grindal 1583 to 1604 John Witgift 1604 to 1610 Richard Bancroft 1611 to 1633 George Abbot 1633 to 1645 William Laud 1645 to 1660 vacant 1660 to 1663 William Juxon 1663 to 1677 Gilbert Sheldon 1678 to 1691 William Sancroft 1691 to 1694 John Tillotson 1694 to 1715 Thomas Tenison 1716 to 1737 William Wake 1737 to 1747 John Potter 1747 to 1757 Thomas Herring 1757 to 1758 Matthew Hutton 1758 to 1768 Thomas Secker 1768 to 1783 Frederick Cornwallis 1783 to 1805 John Moore 1805 to 1828 Charles Manners-Sutton 1828to 1848 William Howley 1848 to 1862 John Bird Sumner 1862 to 1868 Charles Thomas Longley 1868 to 1882 Archibald William Tait 1883 to 1896 Edward White Benson 1896 to 1902 Frederick Temple 1903 to 1928 Randall Thomas Davidson 1928 to 1942 William Cosmo Gordon Lang 1942 to 1944 William Temple 1944 to 1961 Geoffrey Francis Fisher 1961 to 1974 Arthur Michael Ramsey 1974 to 1980 Frederick Donald Coggan 1980 to 1991 Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie 1991 to 2002 George Leonard Carey 2002 to present Rowan Douglas Williams,