Archbishop Quotes

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

The archbishop of Canterbury and his advisers are reviewing this matter at the present moment. I prefer not to make any statement.

(When Jim Nicholson was ambassador to the Holy See last year, he had a memorable conversation with a Polish archbishop, introduced to him as) Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. ... So what do you do?

In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I`ve seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I`m responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, `One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people`.

Twenty-seven years ago I travelled with the then Archbishop of Krakow Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to Rome (where he was elected Pope). I am convinced he will continue to lead me by the hand from on high.

OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell`s army exorcised a soldier`s obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.