20 Apr 1012: St. Alphege Archbishop of #Canterbury - killed on day before by his Viking captors during the course of a drunken party - is buried #otd in
St Paul's London
19 Apr 1554: Matthew Parker, the future Archbishop of #Canterbury former chaplain to Anne Boleyn & very significant manuscript collector deprived of his Deanery of #Lincoln for being married #otd (LPL)
6 Apr 1619: George Abbot, Archbishop of #Canterbury lays the foundation stone of The Hospital of the Blessed Trinity, now better known as Abbot's Hospital at #Guildford#otd (Jack1956/NPG)
30 Mar 1648: Gilbert Sheldon (future Archbishop of #Canterbury) forcibly ejected from the wardenship of All Souls #Oxford#otd by Parliament's Visitors (NPG)
He nonetheless later left a permanent mark on the University landscape
28 Mar 1558: Cardinal Archbishop Reginald Pole names Hugh Turnbull, Dean of #Chichester, a commissioner to investigate heresy in the diocese of #Canterbury#otd (BM)
27 Mar 1604: funeral of John Whitgift, Archbishop of #Canterbury#otd (Lambeth Palace) he died 29 Feb 1604 at #Lambeth. He had himself been chief mourner at Elizabeth I’s funeral.
26 Mar 1574: John Whitgift Dean of #Lincoln preaches the New Year sermon for Elizabeth I at #Greenwich in defence of episcopal government. As Archbishop of #Canterbury he would be at her death bed & then chief mourner at her funeral in 1603 (eebo/NPG)
26 Mar 668: Pope Vitalian consecrates Theodore of Tarsus as Archbishop of #Canterbury#otd (Bm/AntiochianOrthodox) but only after the shaven-headed monk's hair had grown out & then could be tonsured in the western style #hairmatters
25 Mar 1556 Reginald Pole new Archbishop of #Canterbury receives the Pallium on the third day after his consecration on the feast of the Annunciation & first day of the New Year #otd (National Trust images)
22 Mar 1556: Cardinal Reginald Pole is consecrated Archbishop of #Canterbury#otd in succession to Thomas Cranmer who had been burnt the previous day (NPG)
ECan's incompetence has led to the death of hundreds of fish, eels and fresh water crays. Farmers have been warning about this disaster for weeks, while ECan twiddled their fingers.
Publicity showing the largely dead creek caused a sudden ECan u-turn today.
19 Mar 1469: William Selling, Prior of Christ Church #Canterbury charges a Lollard #otd who was opposed to the cult of St. Thomas Becket of #Canterbury (Pilgrim badges: BM/Met Museum) Neither could have predicted the shrine's destruction 69 years hence, in 1538.
Yesterday hike to Mount Herbert, the highest hill of Banks peninsula! Very nice views, in spite of a freezing wind at the summit.
Went there by car but regret did not have been doing bus+ferry: similar time, better experience, less pollution. #hike#hiking#mountain#mountains#BanksPeninsula#Canterbury#Aotearoa#NZ
Mar 1636: William Laud Archbishop of #Canterbury writes #otd that John Atherton (later bishop of #Waterford, hanged for sodomy) is best for 'unkennelling the old fox' - the Earl of #Cork (NPG/eebo)
29 Feb 1604: d. John Whitgift Archbishop of #Canterbury who was with Elizabeth I as she is dying #otd (Lambeth Palace). He was also chief mourner at her funeral
26 Feb 1401: William Sawtre(y) Lollard priest ceremonially stripped of priestly orders at St. Paul's #London#otd - his offences being expounded by the Archbishop of #Canterbury in #English.
Burnt at Smithfield in early March, possibly the 2nd.