Rowan Williams

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Rowan Williams is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian, and poet who served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury and a leading figure in contemporary Christian thought.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Anglican bishop
Archbishop of Canterbury
Christian writer
human
poet
theologian
awarded Fellow of the British Academy
Order of Merit
birthName Rowan Douglas Williams
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1950-06-14
denomination Church of England
educatedAt Cambridge University NERFINISHED
Christ’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
Wadham College, Oxford NERFINISHED
endTime (Archbishop of Canterbury) 2012
endTime (Archbishop of Wales) 2002
ethnicGroup Welsh
fieldOfWork Christian spirituality
church history
literature
theology
genre poetry
theological writing
hasChild Pip Williams
Rhiannon Williams
honorificPrefix The Most Reverend and Right Honourable
knownFor ecumenical engagement
leading figure in contemporary Christian thought
public theology
languageSpoken English
Welsh
memberOf House of Lords
movement Anglo-Catholicism
name Rowan Williams
notableWork Arius: Heresy and Tradition
Faith in the Public Square
Resurrection
Silence and Honey Cakes
The Lion’s World
The Wound of Knowledge
Tokens of Trust
placeOfBirth Swansea
positionHeld 104th Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Wales
Bishop of Monmouth
Canon Theologian of Leicester Cathedral
Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford
Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
religion Anglicanism
residence Cambridge
spouse Jane Williams
startTime (Archbishop of Canterbury) 2002
startTime (Archbishop of Wales) 2000
startTime (Bishop of Monmouth) 1992


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