{"slug": "archbishop-of-canterbury", "label": "Archbishop of Canterbury", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29282", "qid": "Q29282", "description": "senior bishop of the Church of England", "entries": 111, "years": 96, "span": [601, 2025], "span_label": ["601 CE", "2025 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 54}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 35}, {"title": "Births", "count": 18}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "thomas-cranmer", "label": "Thomas Cranmer", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "archbishop-of-york", "label": "Archbishop of York", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "church-of-england", "label": "Church of England", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "augustine-of-canterbury", "label": "Augustine of Canterbury", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "england", "label": "England", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "oxford", "label": "Oxford", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "canterbury", "label": "Canterbury", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "westminster-abbey", "label": "Westminster Abbey", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "tower-of-london", "label": "Tower of London", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "lord-chancellor", "label": "Lord Chancellor", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mercia", "label": "Mercia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 601, "year_label": "601 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The future Archbishops of Canterbury (Mellitus, Justus, and Honorius), and the future Archbishop of York Paulinus, are sent to England by Pope Gregory I to aid Augustine in his missionary work. Gregory writes the decretal Libellus responsionum to Augustine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364903478#Religion", "title": "601", "revid": 1364903478, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 604, "year_label": "604 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26 – Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury, is succeeded by Laurence. He is a member of the Gregorian mission (see 596).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754628#Religion", "title": "604", "revid": 1364754628, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 604, "year_label": "604 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26 – Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754628#Deaths", "title": "604", "revid": 1364754628, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 619, "year_label": "619 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Mellitus becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340802932#Religion", "title": "619", "revid": 1340802932, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 619, "year_label": "619 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 2", "text": "February 2 – Laurence, Archbishop of Canterbury", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340802932#Deaths", "title": "619", "revid": 1340802932, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 624, "year_label": "624 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – Mellitus, Archbishop of Canterbury", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343884392#Deaths", "title": "624", "revid": 1343884392, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 690, "year_label": "690 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 19", "text": "September 19 – Theodore of Tarsus, age 88, dies at Canterbury. He is succeeded by Berhtwald as the 9th Archbishop of Canterbury (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806273#Religion", "title": "690", "revid": 1340806273, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 690, "year_label": "690 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 19", "text": "September 19 – Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806273#Deaths", "title": "690", "revid": 1340806273, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 731, "year_label": "731 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 10", "text": "June 10 – The Mercian Tatwine is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358697487#Religion", "title": "731", "revid": 1358697487, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 800, "year_label": "800 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Archbishop Hygeberht of Lichfield retires; he is succeeded by Ealdwulf. King Coenwulf of Mercia is on better terms with the archbishopric of Canterbury than his predecessor, and unsuccessfully attempts to have the Mercian archiepiscopal see transferred to London (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367075277#Religion", "title": "800", "revid": 1367075277, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 806, "year_label": "806 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 26", "text": "July 26 – Wulfred is elected Archbishop of Canterbury.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292643508#Religion", "title": "806", "revid": 1292643508, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1023, "year_label": "1023 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – (17th day before the kalends of July) The body of the late Ælfheah of Canterbury, the former Archbishop of Canterbury who will later be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint and a martyr of the church, is reburied at Canterbury Cathedral on orders of England's King Canute, after being moved from St. Paul's Cathedral in London on June 12 (the 3rd day before the ides of June). King Canute, whose Danish troops had murdered Archbishop Ælfheah on April 19, 1012, during Canute's invasion of England, has ordered the reburial as an atonement for Ælfheah's death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342213204#April–June", "title": "1023", "revid": 1342213204, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1070, "year_label": "1070 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 11", "text": "April 11 – Stigand is deposed as Archbishop of Canterbury in England by papal legates and imprisoned.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1327891061#Events", "title": "1070", "revid": 1327891061, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1072, "year_label": "1072 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 27", "text": "May 27 – The Accord of Winchester establishes the primacy of the Archbishop of Canterbury over the Archbishop of York, in the Church of England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332932811#Britain", "title": "1072", "revid": 1332932811, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1118, "year_label": "1118 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Archbishop of York is no longer required to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365269195#British_Isles", "title": "1118", "revid": 1365269195, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 1123, "year_label": "1123 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 22", "text": "July 22 – William de Corbeil is installed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, the highest-ranking cleric in England, after his February 4 election is approved by Pope Callixtus II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366532227#July–September", "title": "1123", "revid": 1366532227, "section": "Events › By date › July–September"}}, {"year": 1170, "year_label": "1170 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 14", "text": "June 14 – King Henry II has his 15-year-old son, Henry the Young King, crowned by Roger, Archbishop of York, as junior king and heir to the English throne. The coronation drives Pope Alexander III to allow the exiled Thomas Becket (whose privilege as Archbishop of Canterbury to crown English monarchs has been infringed) to lay an interdict on England as punishment, and this threat forces Henry to negotiate with Becket. Sir William Marshal is appointed tutor-in-arms to Henry the Young King.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367488642#England", "title": "1170", "revid": 1367488642, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1222, "year_label": "1222 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 17", "text": "April 17 – Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury in England, opens a council at Osney Abbey, Oxford.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371224827#Europe", "title": "1222", "revid": 1371224827, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1313, "year_label": "1313 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 28", "text": "May 28 – Thomas Cobham, Archdeacon of Lewes, is elected by his peers to be the Archbishop of Canterbury in England, but King Edward II intervenes and asks Pope Clement V to cancel the result. The Pope installs Walter Reynolds as the new archbishop on October 1.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361694602#April_–_June", "title": "1313", "revid": 1361694602, "section": "Events › April – June"}}, {"year": 1319, "year_label": "1319 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 14", "text": "January 14 – The Earl of Pembroke and the Earl of Hereford persuade Walter Reynolds, Archbishop of Canterbury, to consecrate Stephen Gravesend as the Bishop of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361361432#January_–_March", "title": "1319", "revid": 1361361432, "section": "Events › January – March"}}, {"year": 1327, "year_label": "1327 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 11", "text": "December 11 – Simon Mepeham is elected as England's new Archbishop of Canterbury as the candidate of the Earl of Lancaster, leader of the regency council. Mepeham defeats the candidate supported by Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer, and soon works with King Edward III to end Mortimer's power in England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367267747#October_–_December", "title": "1327", "revid": 1367267747, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1327, "year_label": "1327 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 1", "text": "February 1 – The coronation of King Edward III as ruler of England takes place at Westminster Abbey with the approval of the English Parliament. Walter Reynolds, Archbishop of Canterbury, places the crown upon the new King.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367267747#January_–_March", "title": "1327", "revid": 1367267747, "section": "Events › January – March"}}, {"year": 1348, "year_label": "1348 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 23", "text": "August 23 – John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c.1275)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320392432#Deaths", "title": "1348", "revid": 1320392432, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1349, "year_label": "1349 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 26", "text": "August 26 – Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373507442#Deaths", "title": "1349", "revid": 1373507442, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1353, "year_label": "1353 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1414)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1294629981#Births", "title": "1353", "revid": 1294629981, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1366, "year_label": "1366 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 26", "text": "April 26 – Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361982215#Deaths", "title": "1366", "revid": 1361982215, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1368, "year_label": "1368 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 11", "text": "October 11 – Pope Urban V issues a papal bull appointing William Whittlesey as Archbishop of Canterbury, and \"primate of all England\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371792677#October–December", "title": "1368", "revid": 1371792677, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1374, "year_label": "1374 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 5", "text": "June 5 or June 6 – William Whittlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369753981#Deaths", "title": "1374", "revid": 1369753981, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1376, "year_label": "1376 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 22", "text": "July 22 – Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371264713#Deaths", "title": "1376", "revid": 1371264713, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1380, "year_label": "1380 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 30", "text": "January 30 – Simon Sudbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury, becomes the new Lord Chancellor of England, succeeding Baron Scrope of Bolton. Sudbury will continue in office as both archbishop and lord chancellor until his assassination on June 14, 1381, during the Peasants' Revolt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360515041#January–March", "title": "1380", "revid": 1360515041, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1381, "year_label": "1381 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 14", "text": "June 14 – Peasants' Revolt: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Simon Sudbury", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365430794#April–June", "title": "1381", "revid": 1365430794, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1381, "year_label": "1381 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 14", "text": "June 14 – Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (murdered)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365430794#Deaths", "title": "1381", "revid": 1365430794, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1396, "year_label": "1396 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 31", "text": "July 31 – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360576293#Deaths", "title": "1396", "revid": 1360576293, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1397, "year_label": "1397 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 – Thomas Arundel, accused of high treason by King Richard II of England, is replaced by Roger Walden as Archbishop of Canterbury.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363907908#July–December", "title": "1397", "revid": 1363907908, "section": "Events › July–December"}}, {"year": 1399, "year_label": "1399 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 19", "text": "October 19 – Thomas Arundel is formally restored as Archbishop of Canterbury by King Henry, replacing Roger Walden, who had been installed by King Richard II upon Arundel's dismissal in 1397.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362188981#October–December", "title": "1399", "revid": 1362188981, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1401, "year_label": "1401 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 10", "text": "March 10 – As the English Parliament session closes, King Henry IV gives royal assent to the Suppression of Heresy Act, permitting secular authorities to carry out punishment for religious crimes. The assent comes after the Archbishop of Canterbury pressures King Henry to outlaw the Lollards, followers of John Wycliffe, and criminalizes possession of a copy of Wycliffe's translation of the Bible.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347806355#January–March", "title": "1401", "revid": 1347806355, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1414, "year_label": "1414 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1353)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368828978#Deaths", "title": "1414", "revid": 1368828978, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1416, "year_label": "1416 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – Henry Chichele, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, begins the first of his semiannual inquisitions, directing the archdeacons to seek out heretics and bring them to trial.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368829186#July–September", "title": "1416", "revid": 1368829186, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1420, "year_label": "1420 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 14", "text": "February 14 – English Lollard William Taylor is acquitted of charges of heresy in a trial before the Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry Chichele. Taylor will in 1423 be convicted of heresy and burned at the stake.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365937924#January–March", "title": "1420", "revid": 1365937924, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1443, "year_label": "1443 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 12", "text": "April 12 – Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349474708#Deaths", "title": "1443", "revid": 1349474708, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1443, "year_label": "1443 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 12", "text": "April 12 – Henry Chichele, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury for almost 29 years, dies and is succeeded by John Stafford on May 13.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349474708#April–June", "title": "1443", "revid": 1349474708, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1443, "year_label": "1443 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 13", "text": "May 13 – John Stafford is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury by Pope Eugene IV.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349474708#April–June", "title": "1443", "revid": 1349474708, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1445, "year_label": "1445 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 30", "text": "May 30 – At a ceremony at Westminster Abbey, the coronation of Margaret of Anjou as Queen consort of England takes place before John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370372937#April–June", "title": "1445", "revid": 1370372937, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1452, "year_label": "1452 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May", "text": "May – John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355060030#Deaths", "title": "1452", "revid": 1355060030, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1454, "year_label": "1454 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 22", "text": "March 22 – John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367365323#Deaths", "title": "1454", "revid": 1367365323, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1486, "year_label": "1486 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 30", "text": "March 30 – Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England (b. c. 1404)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369024065#Deaths", "title": "1486", "revid": 1369024065, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1487, "year_label": "1487 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 – Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury since January 21, becomes the new Lord Chancellor of England, succeeding the late Thomas Bourchier.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366465965#January–March", "title": "1487", "revid": 1366465965, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1489, "year_label": "1489 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "July 2", "text": "July 2 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364757252#Births", "title": "1489", "revid": 1364757252, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1500, "year_label": "1500 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1558)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371377541#Births", "title": "1500", "revid": 1371377541, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1500, "year_label": "1500 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 15", "text": "September 15 – John Morton, English Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1420)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371377541#July–December", "title": "1500", "revid": 1371377541, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}, {"year": 1504, "year_label": "1504 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "August 6", "text": "August 6 – Matthew Parker, English Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1574)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365936803#Births", "title": "1504", "revid": 1365936803, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1532, "year_label": "1532 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 22", "text": "August 22 – William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1450)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818925#Deaths", "title": "1532", "revid": 1368818925, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1533, "year_label": "1533 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 30", "text": "March 30 – Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359627731#January–March", "title": "1533", "revid": 1359627731, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1541, "year_label": "1541 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 23", "text": "November 23 – Catherine Howard, the Queen consort of England, is arrested after 16 days of questioning by Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, reveals that she had also been conducting an adulterous affair with Francis Dereham while married to King Henry VIII. 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