Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, religious head of the Church of England, has no formal authority outside that jurisdiction, but is recognised as symbolic head of the worldwide communion.

The body has a permanent secretariat, the Anglican Communion Office, of which the Archbishop of Canterbury is president.

) Hilton also claims a Roman Catholic monarch would therefore be unable to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and points to the examples of European states that have similar religious provisions for their monarchs: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, whose constitutions compel their monarchs to be Lutherans, the Netherlands, the constitution of which insists its monarchs be members of the Protestant House of Orange, and Belgium, which has a constitution that provides for the succession to be through Roman Catholic houses.

He also has lodgings in the Old Palace, Canterbury, located beside Canterbury Cathedral, where the Chair of St. Augustine sits.

Catalogued as Cambridge Manuscript 286, it has been positively dated to 6th century Italy and this bound book, the St Augustine Gospels, is still used during the swearing-in ceremony of new archbishops of Canterbury.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has a ceremonial provincial curia, or court, consisting of some of the senior bishops of his province.

Along with primacy over the Archbishop of York, the Archbishop of Canterbury also has a precedence of honour over the other bishops of the Anglican Communion.

* Two further suffragans, the Bishop of Ebbsfleet and the Bishop of Richborough, are provincial episcopal visitors for the whole Province of Canterbury, licensed by the archbishop as " flying bishops " to visit parishes throughout the province who are uncomfortable with the ministrations of their local bishop who has participated in the ordination of women.

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

The term " monastic Christology " has been used to describe spiritual approaches developed by Anselm of Canterbury, Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux.

The question of whether The Canterbury Tales is finished has not yet been answered.

The question of whether The Canterbury Tales is finished has not yet been answered.

There is no international juridical authority in Anglicanism, although the tradition's common experience of episcopacy, symbolised by the historical link with the See of Canterbury, along with a common and complex liturgical tradition, has provided a measure of unity.

Research in the 20th century has focused on dating the manuscripts ( 19th-century scholars tended to date them older ); locating where the manuscripts were created — there were seven major scriptoria from which they originate: Winchester, Exeter, Worcester, Abingdon, Durham, and two Canterbury houses, Christ Church and St. Augustine's Abbey ; and identifying the regional dialects used: Northumbrian, Mercian, Kentish, West Saxon ( the last being the main dialect ).

The phrase has been used since at least the 1930s, and in 1943, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple, was reported as warning that the " Christian tradition ... was in danger of being undermined by a " Secular Humanism " which hoped to retain Christian values without Christian faith.

St Dunstan's Church has carefully investigated, preserved and sealed this burial vault of the Roper family who lived in Canterbury.

Canterbury University has six halls of residence housing around 1800 students.

* William Howley Archbishop of Canterbury has his coach attacked by an angry mob on his first official visit to Canterbury.

* Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales, and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys or begin new projects.

The only other of his works which has been printed, besides a few letters ( in The Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury, ed.

The Canterbury area has been inhabited since prehistoric times.

In 1448 Canterbury was granted a City Charter, which gave it a mayor and a high sheriff ; the city still has a Lord Mayor and Sheriff.

Some urban centres, for example Canterbury, Cirencester, Wroxeter, Winchester and Gloucester, remained active during the 5th and 6th centuries, surrounded by large farming estates.

Scholars such as Christopher Snyder believe that during the 5th and 6th centuries — approximately from 410 AD when Roman legions withdrew, to 597 AD when St. Augustine of Canterbury arrived — southern Britain preserved a sub-Roman society that was able to survive the attacks from the Anglo-Saxons and even use a vernacular Latin for an active culture.

A total of 31 mints were employed in this recoinage — Bedford, Bristol, Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Colchester, Durham, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Ilchester, Ipswich, Launceston, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich, Oxford, Pembroke, Salisbury, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Thetford, Wallingford, Wilton, Winchester, and York — but once the recoinage was completed only 12 mints were allowed to remain active.

The Jerusalem bishopric, with the consent of the British government and the active encouragement of the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of London, was duly established, endowed with Prussian and English money, and remained for some forty years an isolated symbol of Protestant unity and a rock of stumbling to Anglican Catholics.

Ramsey was active in the ecumenical movement, and while Archbishop of Canterbury in 1966 he met Pope Paul VI in Rome, where the Pope presented him with the episcopal ( bishop's ) ring he had worn as Archbishop of Milan.

As a devout Anglican of the high church tradition, Cripps was very active in church affairs and was appointed Vicar-General of York in 1900 and of Canterbury in 1902.

He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh, he was primarily active in the Moluccas and New Guinea, he served as director of the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand between 1890 – 1893, and eventually moved to Liverpool, England, where he served as a consulting director of museums there until his death.

Among his works are Ladensium Aὐτοκατάκρισις, an answer to Lysimachus Nicanor by John Corbet in the form of an attack on Laud and his system, in reply to a publication which charged the Covenanters with Jesuitry ; Anabaptism, the true Fountain of Independency, Brownisme, Antinomy, Familisme, etc., a sermon which he criticises the rise of the early Baptist churches in England such as those lead by Thomas Lambe ; An Historical Vindication of the Government of the Church of Scotland ; The Life of William ( Laud ) now Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Examined ( London, 1643 ); A Parallel of the Liturgy with the Mass Book, the Breviary, the Ceremonial and other Romish Rituals ( London, 1661 ).

In June 1863 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as The Author of – Life of Doctor Arnold – Historical Memorials of Canterbury – Syria and Palestine in connexion with their History – Lectures on the Eastern Churches – and Lectures on the Jewish Churches

* Historical resources on Scottish Anglicanism from Project Canterbury

* Historical resources on Nashotah House from Project Canterbury

* Historical documents on SSC from Project Canterbury

Leading books of that era include Dr. Edgar J. Goodspeed's The New Testament: An American Translation ( the Press's first nationally successful title ) and its successor, Goodspeed and J. M. Povis Smith's The Complete Bible: An American Translation ; Sir William Alexander Craigie's A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles, published in four volumes in 1943 ; John Manly and Edith Rickert's The Canterbury Tales, published in 1940 ; and Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.

* Historical and bibliographic material on the Guild of All Souls from Project Canterbury

* Historical and bibliographic material on the Melanesian Brotherhood from Project Canterbury

Birds taken mainly from Tasmania and Victoria were introduced into New Zealand by local Acclimatisation Societies of Otago and Canterbury in the 1860s, with the Wellington Acclimatisation Society releasing 260 birds in 1874.

* Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ( 1847-1851, Percy Society ), a new text with notes, reprinted in 1 vol.

Woodward's will left to the University a large collection of fossils and also dictated that the professor should be elected by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Ely, the President of the Royal Society, the President of the Royal College of Physicians, the Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge, and the University Senate.

The Canterbury Papers: Essays on Religion and Society.

It was at Cerne, and partly at the desire, it appears, of Æthelweard, that he planned the two series of his English homilies ( edited by Benjamin Thorpe, 1844 – 1846, for the Ælfric Society and more recently by Malcolm Godden and Peter Clemoes for the Early English Text Society ), compiled from the Christian fathers, and dedicated to Sigeric, Archbishop of Canterbury ( 990-994 ).

Following the commemoration of the centenary of this line, various groups including the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society ( Canterbury Branch ) ( now the Canterbury Railway Society ) became interested in developing the historical site.

Also in that year, the NZRLS Canterbury Branch was reconstituted as the Canterbury Railway Society.

Similar works were soon started in Christchurch ( Ferrymead Railway ), Auckland ( Glenbrook Vintage Railway ), Wellington ( Silver Stream Railway ) and the Waikato by the NZRLS Canterbury Branch, Railway Enthusiasts Society ( former NZRLS Auckland Branch ), NZRLS Wellington Branch and NZRLS Waikato Branch.

Other notable efforts during the 1960s and 1970s were begun by Steam Incorporated of Wellington, Pleasant Point Museum and Railway, Ashburton Railway and Preservation Society, Museum of Transport and Technology, Canterbury Steam Preservation Society and the Otago Excursion Train Trust.

The Weka Pass Railway, Bay of Islands Vintage Railway, Taieri Gorge Railway and Goldfields Steam Train Society took over parts of old lines in Canterbury, Northland, Otago and the Bay of Plenty respectively.

He was educated at Repton School ( where the headmaster was another future Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Francis Fisher ) and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society and where his support for the Liberal Party won him praise from Herbert Asquith.

* Society: Bororo, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury

Rangiora boasts two theatre companies: The North Canterbury Musical Society and The Rangiora Players.

The first show to use the restored facility was the North Canterbury Musical Society with their performance of Guys and Dolls in June 2011.

His Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was published in Boston and London and raised considerable opposition in England and America ; Thomas Secker, then archbishop of Canterbury, wrote an Answer the following year.

Examples of such series include Antwerp working papers in linguistics ; Early English manuscripts in facsimile ; Garland reference library ; Canterbury Tales Project ; Early English Text Society.

Included in these was the Canterbury Branch of the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society, which had formed in the late 1950s to cater for local rail enthusiast interests.