The Right Reverend and Right Honourable

The Lord Williams of Oystermouth

PC FBA FRSL FLSW
Archbishop of Canterbury
ChurchChurch of England
ProvinceCanterbury
DioceseCanterbury
Elected2 December 2002
Installed27 February 2003
Term ended31 December 2012 (retired)
PredecessorGeorge Carey
SuccessorJustin Welby
Other postsArchbishop of Wales
2000–2002
Bishop of Monmouth
1992–2002
Orders
Ordination1977 (deacon)
1978 (priest)
Consecration1 May 1992
by Alwyn Rice Jones
Personal details
Birth nameRowan Douglas Williams
Born (1950-06-14) 14 June 1950 (age 69)
Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales
NationalityWelsh
DenominationAnglicanism
Parents
  • Aneurin Williams
  • Delphine née Morris
Spouse
Jane Paul (m. 1981)
ProfessionBishop, theologian
Alma mater
  • Christ's College, Cambridge
  • Wadham College, Oxford
Motto
  • Cultus Dei Sapientia Hominis
  • (The worship of God is the wisdom of man)
Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 2013
Preceded byDuncan Robinson
Member of the House of Lords
(life peer)
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 2013