Monday, March 1, 2010

Canterbury Cathedral


The Canterbury Cathedral is located in Canerbury England. This Cathedral is
the cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion. In the middle ages the Cathedral of Canterbury was the seat of the most powerful archbishop in England Its formal title is the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ at Canterbury. The history of the Cathedral goes back to 597AD. When Pope Gregory sent St Augistine as a missonary. In 1170 Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered and people continue to flock there to this day. Canterbury has a gothic cathedral architecture.