Archbishop of Canterbury
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The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and primate of the Church of England. In this capacity, they are the diocesan bishop of the diocese of Canterbury, the metropolitan of the province of
Mullally in 2019, while Bishop of London
The Archbishop of Canterbury's official London residence and office is Lambeth Palace, photographed looking east across the River Thames
Augustine of Canterbury
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Augustine of Canterbury was a Christian monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He was the prior of a Benedictine monastery in Rome when Pope Gregory I chose him in 595 to
Archbishop of Canterbury
…archbishop is Dame Sarah Mullally, who was confirmed on 28 January 2026 and is the first woman to hold the office. The first archbishop of Canterbury was Augustine, the "Apostle to the English", who was sent to England by Pope Gregory the Great and arrived in 597. From Augustine until William Warham the archbishops…
Portrait labelled "AUGUSTINUS" from the mid-8th-century Saint Petersburg Bede, though perhaps intended as Gregory the Great.
Æthelberht of Kent imagined in a statue at Canterbury Cathedral
Augustine's gravesite at Canterbury