Archbishop of Canterbury

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The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, as well as the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The present archbishop is Rowan Williams.

Williams is the 104th in the list of Archbishops of Canterbury, in a line that goes back more than 1400 years to the first, Saint Augustine of Canterbury, who founded the see, the oldest in England, in the year 597.

Along with the Church of England as a whole, the Archbishops of Canterbury were in communion with the See of Rome until the English Reformation, around 1534, when the independence of the English Church was established.

(Source: Wikipedia)