* Austin is a contracted form of Augustine of Hippo and Augustine of Canterbury.

The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches ( and a few other episcopal churches ) in full communion with the Church of England ( which is regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion ) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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.

There is an Anglican Communion Office in London, under the aegis of the Archbishop of Canterbury, but it only serves a supporting and organisational role.

It is held roughly every ten years and invitation is by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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

Since membership is based on a province's communion with Canterbury, expulsion would require the Archbishop of Canterbury's refusal to be in communion with the affected jurisdiction ( s ).

The first undoubted instance is the bull by which Alexander II in 1063 granted the use of the mitre to Egelsinus, abbot of the monastery of St Augustine at Canterbury.

Additionally, at the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury, there is a threefold enthronement, once in the throne the chancel as the diocesan bishop of Canterbury, once in the Chair of St. Augustine as the Primate of All England, and then once in the chapter-house as Titular Abbot of Canterbury.

* Absalom is the name of a comedic character in " The Miller's Tale " in the Canterbury Tales.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

" It is clear ," Brooks concludes, " that the metropolitan church Canterbury must have been quite unable to provide any effective training in the scriptures or in Christian worship.

After the 1174 fire in Canterbury Cathedral, Ælfheah's remains together with those of Dunstan were placed around the high altar, at which Thomas Becket is said to have commended his life into Ælfheah's care shortly before his martyrdom during the Becket controversy.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

He is the 104th in a line which goes back more than 1400 years to St Augustine of Canterbury, the " Apostle to the English ", in the year 597.

# He is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, which covers the east parts of the County of Kent.

# He is the metropolitan archbishop of the Province of Canterbury, which covers the southern two-thirds of England.

As holder of one of the " five great sees " ( the others being York, London, Durham and Winchester ), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the Lords Spiritual of the House of Lords.

The current archbishop, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Rowan Douglas Williams, is the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.

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.

* Canterbury, Connecticut, a town in Connecticut

* Canterbury, New Hampshire, a town in New Hampshire

Loseby, the very idea of a town as a centre of power and administration was reintroduced to England by the Roman Christianizing mission to Canterbury, and its urban revival was delayed to the 10th century.

During his tenure, he was alleged to have miraculously saved the cathedral, and much of the town of Canterbury, from a fire.

Dover ’ s main communications artery, the A2 road replicates two former routes, connecting the town with Canterbury.

A cathedral may front onto the main square of a town, as in Florence, or it may be set in a walled close as at Canterbury.

After the conversion, Canterbury, as a Roman town, was chosen by Augustine as the centre for an episcopal see in Kent, and an abbey and cathedral were built.

His chapel became the official start of pilgrimage to his Canterbury shrine ; it was grander than some town parish churches, and had an additional river-level entrance for fishermen and ferrymen.

14th Century Archbishop of Canterbury, Simon Sudbury was born in the town as was, more recently, artist Maggi Hambling and professional footballer Stuart Slater.

Canterbury is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.

On the last Saturday in July, the town hosts the annual Canterbury Fair.

First granted by Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth in 1727, the town was named for William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Initially Northfield was incorporated as part of Canterbury when that town was established in 1741.

At the time it was a frontier town protected by a garrison fort erected on a hill close to Canterbury Center and commanded by Capt.

By 1780 the residents of the north fields found it increasingly difficult to travel to the center of Canterbury to attend to town business.

The historic city of Canterbury is situated on the river, as are the former Cinque Port of Sandwich and the railway town of Ashford.

The dispute centered around the attempt by Baldwin to build a church dedicated to Saint Thomas Becket, just outside of the town of Canterbury.

At the time it was the normal practice for universities to be named after the town or city whose boundaries they were in, with both " University of Kent " and " University of Canterbury " initially proposed.

There was much discussion about the names adopted for most of the colleges with the following alternative names all in consideration at one point or another: for Eliot: Caxton, after William Caxton ; for Keynes: Richborough, a town in Kent ; Anselm, a former Archbishop of Canterbury ; and for Darwin: Anselm ( again ); Attlee, after Clement Attlee, the post war Prime Minister ; Becket, after Thomas Becket, another former Archbishop ( this was the recommendation of the college's provisional committee but rejected by the Senate ); Conrad ; Elgar, after Edward Elgar ; Maitland ; Marlowe, after Christopher Marlowe ; Russell, after Bertrand Russell ( this was the recommendation of the Senate but rejected by the Council ); Tyler, after both Wat Tyler and Tyler Hill on which the campus stands.

The story of the Pilgrim's Way passing through Reigate is a myth, although in the 13th century a chapel to St Thomas was built in the town centre for the use of Canterbury pilgrims.

Ethelbert permitted the missionaries to settle and preach in his town of Canterbury, first in Saint Martin's Church and then nearby at what later became St Augustine's Abbey.

The town began as a small shipping community, receiving goods and passengers from London en route to Canterbury and Dover.

In 1456 Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, purchased the Knole estate and built Knole House, which still dominates the town.

The Roman Catholic church is dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury ; and there are some eight other denominations represented in the town.