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  Archbishop of Canterbury Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England is the spiritual head of the Church of England.
Since Henry VIII broke with Rome, archbishops of Canterbury have been selected by the English (latterly British) monarch; at present, the choice is made in his or her name, but by the prime minister, from a shortlist of two selected by a committee of clergy and laity.
The first Archbishop of Canterbury was Saint Augustine of Canterbury, who arrived in Kent in 597, all Archbishops of Canterbury since have been referred to as occupying the Chair of St Augustine.
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/a/ar/archbishop_of_canterbury.html   (218 words)

  
 George Abbot
He has been described as a clergyman, which he never was, and as son of Sir Morris (or Maurice) Abbot, and his writings accordingly entered in the bibliographical authorities as by the nephew of the archbishop of Canterbury.
One of the sons of Sir Morris Abbot was, indeed, named George, and he was a man of mark, but the more famous George Abbot was of a different family altogether.
He was son or grandson (it is not clear which) of Sir Thomas Abbot, knight of Easington, East Yorkshire, having been born there in 1603--1604, his mother (or grandmother) being of the ancient house of Pickering.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ge/George_Abbot.html   (319 words)

  
 The Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop Williams, who was the Archbishop of Wales and the Bishop of Monmouth at his appointment, is the first non-English Archbishop of Canterbury to be appointed since the Reformation.
The Archbishop is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.
A Province in the Anglican Communion is the territory of one of the 38 national or regional Churches in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 George Abbot
Abbot was a Calvinist and a moderate Churchman; while Dr. Laud was an Arminian, and might have been a cardinal at Rome, if he had not preferred to be a pope at Canterbury.
Archbishop Abbot warmly opposed its enforcement, and forbade it to be read in the church of Croyden, where he was at the time of its publication.
Dr. Abbot’s brief sequestration had made him popular in the country, and his restoration was probably owing to a desire to conciliate his influence in the parliament, with which the king was already in trouble.
www.wilderness-cry.net /bible_study/translators/gabbot.html   (1705 words)

  
 George Abbot
George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury and one of the translators of the King James Bible, was born on October 29, 1562, in Guildford (of Surrey, England; burial place of Lewis Carroll).
In 1604, Dr. Abbot was the second of eight scholars at Oxford chosen by King James I to translate the New Testament (excluding the Epistles).
The archbishop was greatly grieved by the incident.
www.learnthebible.org /history-george-abbot.htm   (622 words)

  
 George Abbot (Archbishop of Canterbury) Encyclopedia Article @ KJ5.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Archbishop George Abbot by an unknown artist, in the collection of Balliol College.
His enemies maintained that the fatal issue of this accident disqualified him for his office, and argued that, though the homicide was involuntary, the sport of hunting which had led to it was one in which no clerical person could lawfully indulge.
Abbot was a conscientious prelate, though narrow in view and often harsh towards both separatists and Roman Catholics.
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 George ABBOT (Archbishop of Canterbury)
English divine, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born on 19 Oct 1562, at Guildford in Surrey, where his father was a cloth-worker.
Robert Sibthorp at Northampton on 22 Feb 1626-1627, in which cheerful obedience was urged to the King's demand for a general loan, and the duty proclaimed of absolute non-resistance even to the most arbitrary royal commands, led Charles to deprive him of his functions as primate, putting them in commission.
He died at Croydon on the 5 Aug 1633, and was buried at Guildford, his native place, where he had endowed a hospital with lands to the value of £300 a year.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/GeorgeAbbot.htm   (649 words)

  
 George Abbot (Archbishop of Canterbury) - Slider   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
George Abbot (October 19, 1562 – August 5, 1633) was an English divine, Archbishop of Canterbury, born at Guildford in Surrey, where his father was a cloth-worker.
In 1608 he went to Scotland with the Earl of Dunbar to arrange for a union between the churches of England and Scotland.
He died at Croydon on the August 5 1633, and was buried at Guildford, his native place, where he had endowed a hospital with lands to the value of L. 300 a year.
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 October 19: Birth of Archbishop George Abbot
George Abbot, was a prominent translator of the King James Bible and became archbishop of Canterbury.
Abbot was born on this day, October 19, 1562 in Guildford, England.
McKilliam, Annie E. A Chronicle of the Archbishops of Canterbury.
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/10/daily-10-19-2001.shtml   (615 words)

  
 English Dissenters: Puritans
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Whitgift was Dean of Lincoln (1571), and Bishop of Worcester (1577), and Archbishop of Canterbury (1583-1604).
Archbishop Abbot is an uneven figure of the period.
www.exlibris.org /nonconform/engdis/puritans.html   (15379 words)

  
 Britannia Biographies: George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury
George Abbot was born in 1562 in Guildford in Surrey, where he was educated before entering Balliol College, Oxford.
It was clear that the Archbishop was in no way to blame for the accident, but it afforded his enemies a fresh ground of attack and it cast a cloud over his latter years.
Abbot found little favour in the eyes of King Charles I and his advisers.
www.britannia.com /bios/abofc/gabbot.html   (399 words)

  
 Archbishop of Canterbury - OrthodoxWiki
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the primate of the Church of England and the spiritual head of the Anglican Communion.
The current Archbishop of Canterbury is the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Rowan Williams, 104th successor to the Chair of St. Augustine of Canterbury.
He chose a to send a group of Benedictine monks, under the leadership of St. Augustine of Canterbury (not to be confused with Augustine of Hippo).
orthodoxwiki.org /Archbishop_of_Canterbury   (587 words)

  
 Notes as to the Consecration of Archbishop Parker
The accuracy of this facsimile is certified under date of January 1, 1870, by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Tait), the Archdeacon of London and Hon.
The Mandate for the restitution of the temporalities.
Consecrated Bishop of Rochester August 30, 1551, in the Chapel of the Manor of Croydon by Cranmer, Ridley, and Hodgskin.
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 August 4th   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
After all this was done, Laud and three other clergymen, elected to bishoprics, refused to accept consecration from Abbot, and the rite was accordingly performed by a congregation of prelates in the Bishop of London's chapel.
Archbishop Abbot was of humble extraction, his father being a cloth-worker at Guildford, in Surrey.
In 1599, George was installed Dean of Winchester; ten years after, advanced to the see of Lichfield, thence to London, and the year after to the Primacy.
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 Augustine of Canterbury Summary
Augustine of Canterbury (birth unknown, died May 26, 604) was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, sent to Ethelbert of Kent, Bretwalda of England by Pope Gregory the Great in 597.
Ethelbert permitted the missionaries to settle and preach in his town of Canterbury and before the end of the year he was converted and Augustine was consecrated bishop at Arles.
Gregory directed the new archbishop to ordain as soon as possible twelve suffragan bishops and to send a bishop to York, who should also have twelve suffragans — a plan which was not carried out, nor was the primatial see established at London as Gregory intended.
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 phen.info - George Abbot (Archbishop of Canterbury)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
George Abbot (October 19, 1562 &nɗash; August 5, 1633) was an Englanɗ ɗivine, Archbishop of Canterbury, born at Guilɗforɗ in Surrey, where his father was a cloth-worker.
Abbot was a conscientious prelate, though narrow in view anɗ often harsh towarɗs both separatists anɗ Roman Catholics.
Guilɗforɗ remembers the Archbishop with a statue in the High Street, a pub anɗ also a seconɗary school (George Abbot School nameɗ after him.
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 Pepys' Diary: Abbot, Archbishop
There was Abbot, George, Archbishop of Canterbury who lies buried in that Chappel of his Endowerment the Hospital & Monument in Guildford near the the Famous Red Lion Inn.
He gained a great reputation at Oxford as an advocate of the views held by the more moderate Puritans and was elected Master of University College, Dean of Winchester and Vice-Chancellor of the University.
In 1627, he was suspended from the exercise of his archiepiscopal functions and the sequestration lasted for more than a year.
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 George Abbott - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Born in rural New York, George Abbott was 11 when he moved with his family to Wyoming.
He was born George Francis Abbott in Forestville, New York, near the town of Salamanca...
George Abbott - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, George Abbott Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 Abbot George - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Abbot George - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Abbot (Aram., abba, “father”), in certain Christian religious orders, the head of a monastery or abbey elected (sometimes for life) by the members...
George (South Africa), town in Western Cape province, south-western South Africa.
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 England 1603-1642
The Howard faction also met opposition at court from George Abbot (Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611) and William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (the richest nobleman in England).
George Abbot decided to take advantage of James' weakness for handsome young men by introducing the king to his own client - the particularly handsome and charming George Villiers.
The leaders of the Parliamentary opposition knew that Charles was not to be trusted, and tried to neutralize him by attacking his trusted agents, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford and William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 Jacobean Drama
Its size and composition remained fluid, but it was largely composed of the chief officers of state: the lord treasurer, who oversaw revenue; the lord chancellor, who was the crown's chief legal officer; and the lord chamberlain, who was in charge of the king's household.
The archbishop of Canterbury was the leading churchman of the realm, and he advised the king, who was the head of the established church.
His schooling under George Buchanan had given him a taste for learning, and he wrote treatises on several subjects (witchcraft, tobacco, the divine right of kings) but his greatest contribution to literature was made in 1604 when he commissioned the Authorized Version of the Bible.
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 Anglican Communion: Archbishops of Canterbury
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the Focus for Unity for the three Instruments of Communion of the Anglican Communion, and is therefore a unique focus for Anglican unity.
He was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 27th February 2003.
George Carey was the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1991 until 2002.
www.aco.org /archbishops/index.html   (169 words)

  
 The Gunpowder Plot Society
The choice of his principal tutor, appointed when he was four, was obvious: George Buchanan, noted European humanist, exponent of resistance theory, and slanderer of his mother, to which attributes could be added a fair degree of sadism; beating ‘the Lord's Anointed’ was not just a matter of discipline but of satisfaction.
In February 1592 the Catholic George Gordon, sixth earl (and later first marquess) of Huntly, at feud with the protestant James Stewart, second earl of Moray, in the north-east, caught up with him at Donibristle on the Forth, where he was murdered by Huntly or one of his followers.
The royal chaplain and religious controversialist George Carleton at last stopped being fobbed off with minor bishoprics and got a plum, Chichester, not because his name was on Buckingham's lips, but because James had been impressed with his performance as a delegate at the Synod of Dort.
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 The Galileo Project
When the Archbishop of Canterbury learned of Vanini's plans, he had him imprisoned, but Vanini succeeded in escaping to France.
The trip to England was financed by the patronage of the English ambassador, and in England he lived entirely (and increasingly unhappily) on the patronage of George Abbot, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
For a time Vanini exerted the same charm on Abbot, who arranged for his public conversion in June 1612, and supported him, though not in a way that pleased Vanini, during his stay in England.
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 History of Guildford Surrey - UK
Within, in the old court-room are a set of standard measures presented to the town by Elisabeth I. These measures are one of the few complete sets in existence.
The tomb was established by Maurice Abbot, Lord Mayor of London, the archbishop's brother.
An inscription tells how the archbishop having risen from humble origins in Guildford to the highest office in Canterbury, could go no farther on earth and then rose to heaven.
www.guildfordguesthouse.com /guildford_history2.htm   (582 words)

  
 Archbishop of Canterbury: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
A decree declares that anyone caught stealing soap must wash himself with it until it is all used up.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, whose see is Canterbury Cathedral, is the head cleric[?] of the Church of England.
Post a link to definition / meaning of " Archbishop of Canterbury " on your site.
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 Guildford
Abbot's Hospital (Hospital of the blessed Trinity), an imposing redbrick building was founded as an almshouse by George Abbot, a local man who rose to become Archbishop of Canterbury.
Opposite Abbot's Hospital is the Church of Holy Trinity, within which lies the tomb of Archbishop Abbot.
Archbishop Abbot was one of the translators of the Authorised Version of the Bible and founder of the Abbot's Hospital.
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 Text of a formal Greeting to Pope John Paul II from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
This is my sixth and last visit to you as Archbishop of Canterbury, and I am glad to have the opportunity to meet you again before I lay down my office.
Since the historic visit my of predecessor Archbishop Michael Ramsey in 1966, the Anglican Centre has been established as a sign and a means of our commitment to each other, and to growth in mutual understanding and fellowship.
As monk, abbot and archbishop; statesman, theologian and philosopher he made a profound and enduring contribution to the life of the Church.
www.archbishopofcanterbury.org /carey/releases/020621.htm   (677 words)

  
 Church of God the Wholly Incompetent - Uncyclopedia
An Oxford faculty member said Trammell "show'd the sayme adherence to truth as Wycliffe," and another predicted he would become Archbishop of Canterbury.
Although Trammell did not expect his new sect to be popular, he quickly converted all of London's lawyers and was able to purchase a meeting house, which drew a large crowd of people eager to bring the Supreme Being down a peg.
Authorities soon learned about the church, and Trammell was summoned before George Abbot, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to defend his beliefs.
www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Church_of_God_the_Wholly_Incompetent   (1517 words)

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