Succession list of the
Archbishops of Canterbury

1279 
John Peckham *
The series of archbishops' registers begins at this date. For earlier archbishops, see Fryde, Greenway, Porter & Roy (ed.s) "Handbook of British Chronology" (3rd edn; London, 1986).
1294 
Robert Winchelsey 
1313 
Walter Reynolds 
1328 
Simon Meopham 
1333 
John de Stratford 
1349 
Thomas Bradwardine 
1349 
Simon Islip 
1366 
Simon Langham 
1368 
William Whittlesey 
1375 
Simon Sudbury 
1381 
William Courtenay 
1396 
Thomas Arundel 
1398 
Roger Walden 
1399 
Thomas Arundel (restored)
1414 
Henry Chichele 
1443 
John Stafford 
1452 
John Kempe 
1454 
Thomas Bourchier 
1486 
John Morton 
1501 
Henry Deane 
1503 
William Warham 
1533 
Thomas Cranmer 
1556 
Reginald Pole 
1559 
Matthew Parker 
1576 
Edmund Grindal 
1583 
John Whitgift 
1604 
Richard Bancroft 
1611 
George Abbot 
1633 
William Laud 
1660 
William Juxon 
1663 
Gilbert Sheldon 
1678 
William Sancroft 
1691 
John Tillotson 
1695 
Thomas Tenison 
1716 
William Wake 
1737 
John Potter 
1747 
Thomas Herring 
1757 
Matthew Hutton 
1758 
Thomas Secker 
1768 
Frederick Cornwallis 
1783 
John Moore 
1805 
Charles Manners-Sutton 
1828 
William Howley 
1848 
John Bird Sumner 
1862 
Charles Thomas Longley 
The separate series of
Archbishops' Papers begins 
at this date.
1868 
Archibald Campbell Tait 
1883 
Edward White Benson 
1896 
Frederick Temple 
1903 
Randall Thomas Davidson 
1928 
William Cosmo Gordon Lang
1942 
William Temple 
1945 
Geoffrey Francis Fisher 
1961 
Arthur Michael Ramsey 
1974 
Frederick Donald Coggan 
1980 
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie
1991 
George Leonard Carey
2002
Rowan Douglas Williams

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