Ancient diocese , the mother-church and primatial see of all England , from 597 until its suppression in the late 16th centuy. At one time there were 22 suffragan dioceses , and the archbishop had the right of crowning and anointing the sovereign. The cathedral , begun by Saint Augustine , was burned in 1067 , and the restoration completed in 1495 . Notable bishops include <\/p>\n
Cardinal Reginald Pole , last Catholic archbishop of the diocese <\/p>\n
Lanfranc <\/p>\n
Deusdedit, 655 -664 , first English bishop <\/p>\n
Saint Anselm of Canterbury <\/p>\n
Saint Augustine of Canterbury , first bishop <\/p>\n
Saint Dunstan of Canterbury <\/p>\n
Saint Edmund Rich <\/p>\n
Saint Theodore (668 -690 ) <\/p>\n
Saint Thomas of Canterbury <\/p>\n
Stephen Langton <\/p>\n
Stigand (1052-1070), last of the Saxons <\/p>\n
New Catholic Dictionary<\/p>\n
Canterbury, England Ancient diocese , the mother-church and primatial see of all England , from 597 until its suppression in the late 16th centuy. At one time there were 22 suffragan dioceses , and the archbishop had the right of crowning and anointing the sovereign. The cathedral , begun by Saint Augustine , was burned … Continue reading “Canterbury, England”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}