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Archbishops of Canterbury

Date = year of accession to archbishop's throne
* = Canonized

Augustine*    597
Laurence*    604
Mellitus*    619
Justus*    624
Honorius*    627
Deusdedit*    655
Wighard    666
Theodore*    668
Bertwald*    693
Tatwin*    731
Nothelm*    735
Cuthbert*    740
Bregwin*    761
Jaenbert*   765
Aethelhard*    793
Wulfred    805
Feologild    832
Ceolnoth    833
Aethelred    870
Plegmund    890
Athelm    923
Wulfhelm    926
Oda the Severe*    941
Aelfsige    958
Berthelm    959
Dunstan*    960
Athelgar    988
Sigeric the Serious    990
Aelfric    995
Aelfheah* (Alphege)    1006
Lyfing    1013
Aethelnoth    1020
Edsige    1038
Robert of Jumieges    1051
Stigand    1052
Lanfranc    1070
Anselm*    1093
Ralph d'Escures    1114
William de Corbeil    1123
Theobald of Bec    1139
Thomas A'Becket*    1162
Richard of Dover    1174
Baldwin of Exeter    1184
Reginald FitzJocelin    1191
Hubert Walter    1193
Reginald    1205
John de Gray    1206
Stephen Langton    1207
Walter d'Eynsham    1228
Richard le Grant    1229
Ralph Neville    1231
John of Sittingbourne    1232
John Blund    1232
Edmund Rich*    1234
Boniface of Savoy    1245
Adam of Chillenden    1270
Robert Kilwardby    1273
Robert Burnell    1278
John Pecham    1279
Robert Winchelsey    1294
Thomas Cobham    1313
Walter Reynolds    1314
Simon Mepeham    1328
John Stratford    1333
John Offord    1348
Thomas Bradwardine    1349
Simon Islip    1349
Simon Langham    1366
William Whittlesey    1368
Simon Sudbury    1375
William Courtenay    1381
Thomas Arundel    1396
Roger Walden    1397
Thomas Arundel    1399
Henry Chicheley    1414
John Stafford    1443
John Kemp    1452
Thomas Bourchier    1454
John Morton    1486
Thomas Langton    1501
Henry Dean    1501
William Warham    1503
Thomas Cranmer    1533
Reginald Pole    1556
Matthew Parker    1559
Edmund Grindal    1576
John Whitgift    1583
Richard Bancroft    1604
George Abbot    1611
William Laud    1633
William Juxon    1660
Gilbert Sheldon    1663
William Sancroft    1678
John Tillotson    1691
Thomas Tenison    1695
William Wake    1716
John Potter    1737
Thomas Herring    1747
Matthew Hutton    1757
Thomas Secker    1758
Frederick Cornwallis    1768
John Moore    1783
Charles Manners Sutton    1805
William Howley    1828
John Bird Sumner    1848
Charles Thomas Longley    1862
Archibald Campbell Tait    1868
Edward White Benson    1883
Frederick Temple    1896
Randall Thomas Davidson    1903
Cosmo Gordon Lang    1928
William Temple    1942
Geoffrey Francis Fisher    1945
Arthur Michael Ramsey    1961
Frederick Donald Coggan    1974
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie    1980
George Leonard Carey    1991
Rowan Williams    2002