List of Archbishops of Canterbury

The following people were Archbishops of Canterbury and sat on the " chair of St. Augustine of Canterbury ":

Pre-Reformation archbishops

• Augustine (St. ), 601-605
• Lawrence (St. ), 605-619
• Mellitus ( Hl ), 619-624
• Justus (St. ), 624-627
• Honorius ( Hl ), 627-653
• Deusdedit ( Hl ), 655-664
• Theodor (St. ), 668-690
• Bert forest (St. ), 693-731
• Tatwin ( Hl ), 731-734
• Nothhelm ( Hl ), 735-739
• Cuthbert (St. ), 740-758
• Bregwin ( Hl ), 759-762
• Jaenbert ( Hl ), 763-790
• Aethelhard ( Hl ), 790-803
• Wulfred, 803-829
• Feologild, 829-830
• Ceolnoth, 830-870
• Aethelred, 870-889
• Plegmund, 891-923
• Athelm, 923-925
• Wulf helmet, 928-941
• Oda of severity ( Hl ), 941-958
• Aelfsige, 958-959
• Brihthelm, 959 ( selected, but deposed before ordination )
• Dunstan (St. ), 960-988
• Athelgar, 988-989
• Sigerich the Serious, 990-994
• Aelfrich, 995-1005
• Aelfheah ( Alphege ) ( Hl ), 1006-1012
• Lyfing, 1013-1020
• Aethelnot, 1020-1038
• Edsige, 1038-1050
• Philip Kahle, 1050-1051
• Robert of Jumièges, 1051-1052
• Stigand, 1052-1070
• Lanfranc, 1070-1089
• Anselm (Saint ), 1093-1109
• Ralph d' Escures, 1114-1122
• William of Corbeil, 1123-1136
• Theobald of Bec, 1139-1161
• Thomas Becket (St. ), 1162-1170
• Richard of Dover, 1174-1184
• Baldwin of Exeter, 1185-1190
• Reginald Fitz- Jocelin, 1191
• Hubert Walter, 1193-1205
• Stephen Langton, 1207-1228
• Walter d' Eynsham, 1229-1231
• Edmund Rich ( Hl ), 1233-1240
• Boniface of Savoy, 1240-1270
• Robert Kilwardby, 1273-1278
• John Peckham, 1279-1292
• Robert Winchelsey, 1293-1313
• Walter Reynolds, 1313-1327
• Simon Mepeham, 1327-1333
• John de Stratford, 1333-1348
• John de Ufford, 1348-1349
• Thomas Bradwardine, 1349
• Simon Islip, 1349-1366
• Simon Langham, 1366-1368
• William Whittlesey, 1368-1374
• Simon Sudbury, 1375-1381
• William Courtenay, 1381-1396
• Thomas Arundel, 1396-1414 (House FitzAlan )
• Henry Chicheley, 1414-1443
• John Stafford, 1443-1452
• John Kemp, 1452-1454
• Thomas Bourchier, 1454-1486
• John Morton, 1486-1500
• Henry Deane, 1501-1503
• William Warham, 1503-1532

Post-Reformation archbishops

• Thomas Cranmer, 1533-1556 (from 1534 during his term breaks the communion between the Church of England and the Church of Rome. )
• Reginald Pole 1556-1558 (the church fellowship between Canterbury and Rome is short ( unofficially ) restored. )
• 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, 1663-1667
• William Sancroft, 1678-1691
• John Tillotson, 1691-1694
• Thomas Tenison, 1694-1715
• William Wake, 1716-1737
• 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, 1882-1896
• Frederick Temple, 1896-1902
• Randall Thomas Davidson, 1903-1928
• Cosmo Gordon Lang, 1928-1942
• William Temple, 1942-1944
• Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 1945-1961
• Arthur Michael Ramsey, 1961-1974
• Frederick Donald Coggan, 1974-1980
• Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, 1980-1991
• George Leonard Carey, 1991-2002
• Rowan Douglas Williams, 2002-2012
• Justin Welby from 2013