Rowan Williams
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Rowan Williams (born 1950) is the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.
Rwan Williams was born in Wales to a Welsh-speaking family. He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, becoming Professor of Dviinty at Oxford. From 1992 to 2002 he was Bishop of Monmouth and from 1999 to 2002 he was also Archbishop of Wales. In 2002 he became Archbishop of Canterbury, and thus head of the Church of England and the Anglican Communion. He is a patron of Affirming Catholicism, which promotes a liberal Anglo-Catholic position within the Church of England, including support for women bishops. His time at Canterbury has been marked by divisions within the Anglican Communion about gay issues and the position of women in the church.
