The Right Reverend and Right Honourable The Lord Williams of Oystermouth PC FBA FRSL FLSW
Archbishop of Canterbury
Church | Church of England
Province | Canterbury
Diocese | Canterbury
Elected | 2 December 2002
Installed | 27 February 2003
Term ended | 31 December 2012 (retired)
Predecessor | George Carey
Successor | Justin Welby
Other posts | Archbishop of Wales 2000–2002 Bishop of Monmouth 1992–2002
Orders
Ordination | 1977 (deacon) 1978 (priest)
Consecration | 1 May 1992 by Alwyn Rice Jones
Personal details
Birth name | Rowan Douglas Williams
Born | (1950-06-14) 14 June 1950 (age 69) Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales
Nationality | Welsh
Denomination | Anglicanism
Parents | Aneurin Williams Delphine née Morris
Spouse | Jane Paul (m. 1981)
Profession | Bishop, 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 by | Duncan Robinson
Member of the House of Lords (life peer)
Incumbent
Assumed office January 2013