Archbishop of Canterbury private talks with Pope John XXIII in 1960. In 2005, Rowan Williams became the first Archbishop of Canterbury to attend a papal funeral since the Reformation. He also attended the inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI. The 101st archbishop, Donald Coggan, was the first to attend a papal inauguration, that of Pope John Paul II in 1978. Since 2002, the Archbishop of Canterbury has co-sponsored the Alexandria Middle East Peace process with the Grand Mufti of Egypt. In July 2008, the archbishop attended a conference of Christians, Jews and Muslims convened by the King of Saudi Arabia at which the notion
John of Canterbury did not take up the see. At Lyon, he forbade the preaching of the Waldensians. He resigned his position at Lyon, to become a monk at Clairvaux, where he lived out his life. He was the addressee in his retirement of an important papal letter, "Cum Marthae circa", dated 29 November 1202. John of Canterbury John of Canterbury (died 1204) was Bishop of Poitiers 1162 to 1181 and Archbishop of Lyon 1181 to 1193. He became a “cosmopolitan and much-respected churchman”. He began as a clerk to Theobald of Canterbury. He became Treasurer of York in 1152. At the wish