The Apostolical Succession in the See of Canterbury

THE following list contains the names of the archbishops of Canterbury from the conversion of the Saxons to Christianity in the year 597, to the present time. During this period of thirteen hundred years, there have been ninety-three occupants of the chair of St. Augustine, the first archbishop.

  1. Augustine.

  2. Lawrence.

  3. Mellitus.

  4. Justus.

  5. Honorius.

  6. Deusdedit.

  7. Theodore.

  8. Brightwald.

  9. Tatwine.

  10. Nothelm.

  11. Cuthbert.

  12. Bregwin.

  13. Lambert.

  14. Ethelard.

  15. Wulfred.

  16. Theogild.

  17. Ceolnoth.

  18. Ethelred.

  19. Phlegmund.

  20. Athelm.

  21. Wulfhelm.

  22. Odo.

  23. Dunstan.

  24. Ethelgar.

  25. Siricius.

  26. Elfric.

  27. Elphege.

  28. Liring.

  29. Ethelnoth.

  30. Eadsige.

  31. Robert of Jumièges.

  32. Stigand.

  33. Lanfranc.

  34. Anselm.

  35. Ralph of Escures.

  36. William of Corbeil.

  37. Theobald.

  38. Thomas à Becket.

  39. Richard.

  40. Baldwin.

  41. Hubert.

  42. Langton.

  43. Grant.

  44. Rich.

  45. Boniface of Savoy.

  46. Kilwardby.

  47. Peckham.

  48. Winchelsey.

  49. Reynolds.

  50. Mepeham.

  51. Stratford.

  52. Bradwardine.

  53. Islip.

  54. Langham.

  55. Whittlesey.

  56. Sudbury.

  57. Courtney.

  58. Arundel.

  59. Chicheley.

  60. Stafford.

  61. Kemp.

  62. Bourchier.

  63. Morton.

  64. Dean.

  65. Warham.

  66. Cranmer.

  67. Pole.

  68. Parker.

  69. Grindall.

  70. Whitgift.

  71. Bancroft.

  72. Abbot.

  73. Laud.

  74. Juxon.

  75. Sheldon.

  76. Sancroft.

  77. Tillotson.

  78. Tenison.

  79. Wake.

  80. Potter.

  81. Herring.

  82. Hutton.

  83. Secker.

  84. Cornwallis.

  85. Moore.

  86. Sutton.

  87. Howley.

  88. Sumner.

  89. Longley.

  90. Tait.

  91. Benson.

  92. Temple.

  93. Davidson.

“At the arrival of Augustine the monk, about six hundred years after Christ, the Britons he found observers still of the self-same government by bishops over the rest of the clergy; under this form Christianity took root again, where it had been exiled. Under the self-same form it remained till the days of the Norman conqueror. By him and his successors it hath from that time till now been upheld.”—Hooker, Eccl. Polity, vii. 2. 1.

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St. Augustine’s Chair in Canterbury Cathedral

In this chair “for many generations the primates of England have all been enthroned; and which, though probably of a later date may yet be rightly called ‘St. Augustine’s Chair,’ for though not the very one in which he sate, it no doubt represents the ancient episcopal throne in which, after the fashion of the bishops of that time, he sate behind the altar (for that was its proper place, and there, as is well known, it once stood), with all his clergy round him, as may still be seen in several ancient churches abroad.”

Stanley, Memorials of Canterbury, 1855, p. 22.

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ANGLICAN BISHOP IN COPE AND MITRE.