Archbishops of Canterbury

(From 597 to 1633)

 

Office

Holder

 

Year of
appointment
Augustine   597
Laurentius   604
Mellitus   619
Justus   624
Honorius   627
Deusdedit   655
Wigheard   666
Theodore   668
Beorhtweald   693
Tatwine   731
Nothelm   735
Cuthbeorht

Bishop of Hereford

740
Breguwine   761
Jaenbeorht   765
Aethelheard   793
Wulfred   805
Feologild   832
Ceolnoth   833
Aethelred   870
Plegmund   890
Aethelhelm   923
Wulfhelm   926
Oda   941
Aefsige   958
Beorhthelm   959
Dunstan   960
Athelgar   988
Sigeric Serio   990
Aelfric   995
Aelfheah   1006
Lyfing   1013
Aethelnoth   1020
Eadsige   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   1184
Reginald FitzJocelin   1191
Hubert Walter   1193
Reginald   1205
John De Grey   1206
Stephen Langton   1207
Walter De Eynesham   1228
Richard Le Grant   1229
Ralph De 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 Peckham   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 Fitzalan   1396
Roger Walden   1397
Thomas Fitzalan   1399
Henry Chicheley   1414
John Stafford   1443
John Kempe   1452
Thomas Bourchier   1454
John Morton   1486
Thomas Langton   1501
Henry Dean   1501
William Warham   1503
Thomas Cranmer (deprived of title)   1533
Reginald Pole   1556
Matthew Parker   1559
Edmund Grindal   1576
John Whitgift   1583
Richard Bancroft

 

1604
George Abbot   1611
William Laud   1633
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