Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop
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found: NUCMC data from Library of Congress Manuscript Division for Its Records, 1594-1864(Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop)
found: LC data base, July 17, 1996(hdg.: Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop)
found: McKilliam, Annie E. A chronicle of the archbishops of Canterbury, 1913.
found: Wikipedia, February 16, 2023(Archbishop of Canterbury; The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury; From the time of Augustine until the 16th century, the archbishops of Canterbury were in full communion with the See of Rome and usually received the pallium from the pope. During the English Reformation, the Church of England broke away from the authority of the pope. Thomas Cranmer became the first holder of the office following the English Reformation in 1533, while Reginald Pole was the last Roman Catholic in the position, serving from 1556 to 1558 during the Counter-Reformation; Today the archbishop fills four main roles: He is the bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, which covers the eastern parts of the County of Kent; He is the metropolitan archbishop of the Province of Canterbury, which covers the southern two-thirds of England; He is the senior primate and chief religious figure of the Church of England (the British sovereign is the supreme governor of the church). Along with his colleague the archbishop of York he chairs the General Synod; As spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop, although without legal authority outside England, is recognised by convention as primus inter pares ("first among equals") of all Anglican primates worldwide)
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1996-07-17: new
2023-02-18: revised
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