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Charles Thomas Longley ( 1794- 1868) was an English churchman, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1862 until his death.

He was born at Rochester, and educated at Westminster School and the University of Oxford. He was ordained in 1818, and was appointed vicar of Cowley, Oxford, in 1823. In 1827 he received the rectory of West Tytherley, Hampshire, and two years later he was elected headmaster of Harrow School. He held this office until 1836, when he was consecrated bishop of the new see of Ripon. In 1856 he became Bishop of Durham, and in 1860 he became Archbishop of York.

In 1862 he succeeded John Bird SumnerJohn Bird Sumner ( 1780- 1862), English archbishop, elder brother of Bishop Charles Sumner, was born at Kenilworth, Warwickshire, and educated at Eton and Cambridge. In 1802 he became a master at Eton, and in the following year he took orders. He was elec as Archbishop of Canterbury. Soon afterwards the questions connected with the deposition of Bishop ColensoJohn William Colenso ( 1814- 1883), English bishop of Natal, was born at St Austell Cornwall, on January 24 1814. His family were in embarrassed circumstances, and he was indebted to relatives for the means of university education. In 1836 he was second w were referred to Longley, but, while regarding Colenso's opinions as heretical and his deposition as justifiable, he refused to pronounce upon the legal difficulties of the case.

The chief event of his primacy was the meeting at LambethLambeth Palace is the palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury, located in Lambeth, in London on the Thames opposite the Palace of Westminster. It was acquired by the archbishopric around 1200. The south bank of the Thames, not part of historic London, deve, in 1867, of the first Pan-Anglican conference of British, colonial and foreign bishopsThe Lambeth Conferences was the name given to the periodical assemblies of bishops of the Anglican Communion (Pan-Anglican synods), which since 1867 have met at Lambeth Palace, the London residence of the archbishop of Canterbury. The idea of these meetin. His published works included numerous sermons and addresses. He died at Addington ParkOriginally built in the 16th century, Addington Palace on the outskirts of Croydon was later changed into a three-storey Palladian-style country mansion with single-storey wings and a splendid Great Hall. It is surrounded by park landscapes and golfcourse, near Croydon.

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.