Why is it taking so long to choose a new leader of the world’s 80 million Anglicans?  It took the Catholic Church about three ...

(RNS) — Easter Sunday is one of the rare days of the church year when the archbishop of Canterbury preaches at the main service of the day at the neo-Gothic Canterbury cathedral, speaking as ...

A female bishop may become the first woman to hold the position of archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England, ...

The Papal nuncio will celebrate Mass for the first time in Canterbury Cathedral on 7 July, to mark the feast of the ...

For previous Archbishops of Canterbury, there were six representatives from the diocese of Canterbury and one from the ...

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the most senior leader in the Church of England, has resigned over his handling of a child abuse case, according to his official account. “Having sought ...

In theory, the Archbishop of Canterbury is appointed by the King, as Supreme Governor of the CofE. However, in reality, the King simply rubberstamps the name given to him by the Prime Minister, which ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the execution of Mary Dyer, Thomas a Becket being consecrated ...

Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, Edward VI and, fatally, Mary I, may have lived at a time of extreme political volatility but, according to religious historian Owen Chadwick, ...

On Tuesday 27th May, in the week when the first Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) meeting takes place to begin discerning ...