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5 days ago · Died: May 28, 1089, Canterbury, Kent, Eng. Lanfranc (born c. 1005, Pavia, Lombardy—died May 28, 1089, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.) was an Italian Benedictine who, as archbishop of Canterbury (1070–89) and trusted counsellor of William the Conqueror, was largely responsible for the excellent church–state relations of William’s reign after the ...
4 days ago · Lanfranc became Archbishop of Canterbury, and asked Anselm to come and assist him. The period after Lanfranc's death, in the late 1080s, was a difficult time for the English Church.
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2 days ago · Augustine also arranged the consecration of his successor, Laurence of Canterbury. The archbishop probably died in 604 and was soon revered as a saint. Saint Augustine of Canterbury was born in an unknown year about a century after his Christian namesake’s death in 430 A.D. in North Africa.
1 day ago · Died: 21 April 1109 Canterbury, England: Buried: Canterbury Cathedral: Parents: Gundulph Ermenberge: Occupation: Monk, prior, abbot, archbishop: Sainthood; Feast day: 21 April: Venerated in: Catholic Church Anglican Communion Lutheranism: Title as Saint: Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of the Church (Doctor Magnificus) Canonized: 4 October 1494 Rome ...
2 days ago · When the Archbishop of Canterbury, Theobald of Bec, died in 1161 Henry saw an opportunity to reassert his rights over the Church in England. Henry appointed Thomas Becket , his English Chancellor , as archbishop in 1162.
4 days ago · St. Adrain died on Jan. 9 at Canterbury, Kent. Several hundred years after his death, Adrian’s body was discovered in an incorrupt state.
