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Anglican Archbishop of York

Senior bishop in the Church of England

  • Dated from 1559 CE
  • Also called Archbishop of York

A seat,
and those
who held it.

Holders in order

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Succession in office

Who held it, in order

A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.

  • 5 holders
  • 3 gaps
  • 1 step named in the records
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1570 CE – 1576 CE Edmund Grindal Archbishop of Canterbury
  2. Gap about 284 years with no holder recorded

    1860 CE – 1862 CE Charles Longley Archbishop of Canterbury; Archbishop of York; Bishop of Durham; Bishop of Ripon (1794-1868)
  3. Gap about 47 years with no holder recorded

    1909 CE – 1928 CE Cosmo Gordon Lang British archbishop and clergyman (1864-1945)
  4. 1929 CE – 1942 CE William Temple Archbishop of Canterbury (1881-1944)
  5. Gap about 14 years with no holder recorded

    1956 CE – 1961 CE Michael Ramsey Archbishop of Canterbury (1904-1988)

Chronology is not a full explanation

Why one holder followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates.

Connections

How Anglican Archbishop of York connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Succession in office 1

What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

1 statement on this record

  • 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0

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