Cuthbert of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop of Hereford
b. 1st millennium · d. 26 Oct 760
13th Archbishop of Canterbury · c. 740–c. 758
Offices
- Archbishop of Canterbury № 13 · c. 740 – c. 758
Cuthbert was a medieval Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury in England. Prior to his elevation to Canterbury, he was abbot of a monastic house, and perhaps may have been Bishop of Hereford also, but evidence for his holding Hereford mainly dates from after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. While Archbishop, he held church councils and built a new church in Canterbury. It was during Cuthbert's archbishopric that the Diocese of York was raised to an archbishopric. Cuthbert died in 760 and was later regarded as a saint.
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- Canterbury death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland 1 claim — Council of Clovesho
- Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum 1 claim — Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum — the see of Canterbury