Archbishops of Canterbury

Name

Reign

Augustine (Austin)

597-604

Laurentius (Lawrence)

604-619

Mellitus

619-624

Justus

624-627

Honorius

627-653

Deusdedit

655-664

Theodore (Theodorus)

668-690

Berhtwald (Beorhtweald)

693-731

Tatwine

731-734

Nothelm

735-739

Cuthbert (Cuthbeorht)

740-760

Bregowine (Breguwine)

761-764

Jaenberht (Jaenbeorht)

765-792

Aethelheard

793-805

Wulfred

805-832

Feologild

832

Ceolnoth

833-870

Aethelred

870-889

Plegmund

890-914

Aethelhelm

914-923

Wulfhelm

923-942

Oda

942-958

Aelfsige

959

Beorhthelm

959

Dunstan

960-988

Aethelgar

988-990

Sigeric Serio

990-994

Aelfric

995-1005

Aelfheah

1005-1012

Lyfing

1013-1020

Aethelnoth

1020-1038

Eadsige

1038-1050

Robert of Jumieges

1051-1052

Stigand

1052-1070

Lanfranc

1070-1089

Anselm

1093-1109

Ralph d'Escures

1114-1122

William of Corbeil

1123-1136

Theobald

1138-1161

Thomas Becket

1162-1170

Richard of Dover

1174-1184

Baldwin

1184-1190

Hubert Walter

1193-1205

Stephen Langton

1206-1228

Richard le Grant

1229-1231

Edmund Rich

1233-1240

Boniface of Savoy

1241-1270

Robert Kilwardby

1272-1278

John Pecham

1279-1292

Robert Winchelsey

1293-1313

Walter Reynolds

1313-1327

Simon Mepham

1327-1333

John Stratford

1333-1348

Thomas Bradwardine

1348-1349

Simon Islip

1349-1366

Simon Langham

1366-1368

William Whittlesey

1368-1374

Simon Sudbury

1375-1381

William Courtenay

1381-1396

Thomas Arundel

1396-1397

Roger Walden

1397-1399

Thomas Arundel (restored)

1399-1414

Henry Chichele

1414-1443

John Stafford

1443-1452

John Kempe

1452-1454

Thomas Bourgchier

1454-1486

John Morton

1486-1500

Henry Deane

1501-1503

William Warham

1504-1532

Reformation

Thomas Cranmer

1533-1556

Reginald Pole

1556-1558

Matthew Parker

1559-1575

Edmund Grindal

1575-1583

John Whitgift

1583-1604

Richard Bancroft

1604-1610

George Abbot

1611-1633

William Laud

1633-1645

William Juxon

1660-1663

Gilbert Sheldon

1663-1677

William Sancroft

1677-1690

John Tillotson

1691-1694

Thomas Tenison

1694-1715

William Wake

1715-1737

John Potter

1737-1747

Thomas Herring

1747-1757

Matthew Hutton

1757-1758

Thomas Secker

1758-1768

Frederick Cornwallis

1768-1783

John Moore

1783-1805

Charles Manners Sutton

1805-1828

William Howley

1828-1848

John Bird Sumner

1848-1862

Charles Thomas Longley

1862-1868

Archibald Campbell Tait

1868-1882

Edward White Benson

1883-1896

Frederick Temple

1896-1902

Randall Thomas Davidson

1903-1928

Cosmo Gordon Lang (from 1942, Baron Lang of Lambeth)

1928-1942

William Temple

1942-1944

Geoffrey Francis Fisher (from 1961, Baron Fisher of Lambeth)

1945-1961

Arthur Michael Ramsey

1961-1774

Frederick Donald Coggan

1974-1980

Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie

1980-1991

George Carey

1991-2002

Rowan Williams

2002-Date