rowan williams, Born 1950
archbishop of canterbury

Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, PC, FBA, FRSL, FLSW, is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet. He was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, a position he held from December 2002 to December 2012. Previously the Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales, Williams was the first Archbishop of Canterbury in modern times not to be appointed from within the Church of England.

Click below to view his life story:

Source: A re-formatted transcript of an interview by Prof. Alan Macfarlane, reproduced with the permission of Rowan Williams and Prof. Macfarlane in 2020.

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