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Understanding the Role and History of the Archbishop of Canterbury

This quiz tests your knowledge about the Archbishop of Canterbury, including historical facts, roles, and significant events related to this important position in the Church of England.

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1 ________ • Blackburn • Bradford • Carlisle • Chester • Durham • Liverpool • Manchester • Newcastle • Ripon and Leeds • Sheffield • Sodor & Man • Southwell • Wakefield

2 He also has a residence next to ________ on the site of the medieval Archbishop's Palace.

3 He is the 104th in a line that goes back more than 1400 years to ________, who founded the oldest see in England in the year 597.

4 Chancellor of ________[4]

5 The first Archbishop of Canterbury was St Augustine (not to be confused with St Augustine of Hippo), who arrived in Kent in 597 AD, having been sent by ________ on a mission to the English.

6 [5] However, in the 5th and 6th centuries Britannia began to be overrun by pagan, Germanic peoples who came to be known collectively as the ________.

7 Trinity (Father, Son, ________) Theology • Doctrine Thirty-Nine Articles Caroline Divines Oxford Movement Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral Sacraments • Mary • Saints

8 Archbishops are, by convention, appointed to the Privy Council and may, therefore, also use the style of "________" for life (unless they are later removed from the council).

9 As holder of one of the "five great sees" (the others being York, London, Durham and Winchester), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the Lords Spiritual of the ________.

10 He is the metropolitan archbishop of the Province of Canterbury, which covers the southern two-thirds of ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the half-brother of William the Conqueror, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, was successfully tried for defrauding the Archbishop of Canterbury of church property a decade after the Norman Conquest of England.
  • the position of Laudian Professor of Arabic was established at the University of Oxford by William Laud (pictured), the Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • five months before his death, William Edington was offered the post of Archbishop of Canterbury, but turned it down.
  • as part of the Canterbury-York dispute in medieval England, Gerard, an Archbishop of York, once kicked over chairs and refused to sit until his chair was as high as the Archbishop of Canterbury's.
  • Horseferry Road takes its name from a horse-ferry from The Embankment to Lambeth Stairs, once one of the most important Thames crossings in London, and which was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, having lost his position on the Historic Churches Preservation Trust (for which he denounced the Archbishop of Canterbury as having "held a pistol to my face while the Dean of Gloucester plunged his dagger into my back"), founded his own, more intransigent, committee, the Friends of Friendless Churches.
  • Deusdedit of Canterbury (d. 664), a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury was the first non-Italian Archbishop of Canterbury.
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