23 July 2002
The Queen has nominated the Most Reverend Rowan Douglas Williams MA DPhil DD FBA, Archbishop of Wales and Bishop of Monmouth, for election by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury in the place of the Most Reverend and Right Honourable George Leonard Carey BD MTh PhD, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan.
Notes for Editors
The Most Reverend Rowan Williams (born 1950) was educated at Dynevor Secondary School, Swansea, then at Christ’s College, Cambridge where he read Theology. He studied for the priesthood and lectured at the College of the Resurrection at Mirfield from 1975 to 1977.
From 1977 to 1980 Rowan Williams was a tutor at Westcott House. He was a lecturer in Divinity in Cambridge University from 1980 to 1986 and Dean and Chaplain of Clare College from 1984 to 1986. From 1980 to 1983 he also worked as honorary curate in the parish of Chesterton St George, Ely. In 1986 he was made a Canon Residentiary of Christ Church, Oxford and Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Oxford. He was elected Bishop of Monmouth in December 1991, and Archbishop of Wales in 1999.
His many publications include The Wound of Knowledge (1979), Resurrection (1982), The Truce of God (1983), Beginning Now; peacemaking theology (1984), Arius, heresy and tradition (1987), Teresa of Avila (1991), Open to Judgement (1994), and After Silent Centuries (1994). Most recently he has published ‘Lost Icons’ (2000) and ‘Writing in the Dust’ (2001). He has also edited ‘The Making of Orthodoxy’ (1989) and jointly edited ‘Love’s Redeeming Work’ (2001), an anthology of Anglican writing on Spirituality.
Rowan Williams is married to Jane who teaches at Trinity College, Bristol. They have a son and a daughter. His interests include music, fiction and languages.
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