See of Canterbury

The local see of Canterbury, with cathedral, bishopric, chapter, endowment, burial right and archive. Before the Obedience War it was the ordering see of the island church that settled the form of the rite; after the war (legal transfer 3949) that island-wide function passed to Oxford, but the see itself, its lands and bishopric continued.

Canterbury's bishopric, cathedral and chapter, which lost the island-wide ordering of rite to Oxford in the Canterbury Obedience War (3942–3949) but kept its cathedral, chapter, lands, burial rights and ordinary diocesan standing. The local bishopric of Canterbury, which survived the Obedience War: what passed to Oxford was the ordering of rite, not the see. Its bishops continued to write from the city afterwards.

Named with it

• Bishop Osbern Fen · bishop, c. 4216

Ties

• lost island-wide ordering of rite to Oxford (the Chapter)
• part of the Church of Britannia
• lost island-wide ordering of the rite to Oxford
• its chapter is the Canterbury Chapter
• distinct from, and alongside, the Canterbury chapter
• lost the island-wide ordering to Oxford

In the chronicle

• 3942–3949 · The Canterbury Obedience War

At the table

It is not to be confused with the translation of the provincial archbishopric to Oxford, which is a separate matter. Kent has never accepted the verdict of the Obedience War. It mourns the lost primacy loudly, and yet will change the subject when asked about it, and a band would do well to offer no opinion on that war while it is in Kent. The Kentish form of burial differs in four small particulars, namely the words said before the body, the naming aloud of the ground, the allowance that lay persons may say the words, and a return to the ground at a stated interval, and upon all four the parishes are immovable. Episcopal questions are settled within the see. Questions of the general form of the rite are not, for those passed to Oxford.