| Accession | Death, deposition or resignation | |
| Augustine | 597 | 26 May 604×9 |
| Laurence | 604×9 | 2 February 619 |
| Mellitus | 619 | 24 April 624 |
| Justus | 624 | 10 November 627×31 |
| Honorius | 627×31 | 30 September 653 |
| Deusdedit | 12 (or 26) March 655 | 14 July 664 |
| Wigheard, archbishop elect | 666×7 | early 668 |
| Theodore | 26 March 668 | 19 September 690 |
| Berhtwald | 29 June 693 | 13 January 731 |
| Tatwine | 10 June 731 | 30 July 734 |
| Noþhelm | 735 | 17 October 739 |
| Cuþberht | 740 | 26 October 760 |
| Bregowine | 27 September 761 | 764 |
| Jaenberht | 2 February 765 | 12 August 792 |
| Æþelheard | 21 July 793 | 12 May 805 |
| Wulfred | October 805 | 24 March 832 |
| Feologild | 9 June 832 | 30 August 832 |
| Swiþræd (rival of Feologild for archbishopric) | ||
| Ceolnoþ | 27 July 833 | 4 February 870 |
| Æþelræd | 870 | 30 June 888 |
| Plegmund | 890 | 2 August 923 |
| Æþelhelm or Aþelm | August 923 × September 925 | 8 January 926 |
| Wulfhelm | 926 | 12 February 941 |
| Oda | 941 | 2 June 958 |
| Ælfsige | 958 | 959 |
| Byrhthelm | 959 | 959 |
| Dunstan | 959 | 19 May 988 |
| Æþelgar | 988 | 12×3 February 990 |
| Sigeric | 990 | 28 October 994 |
| Ælfric | 21 April 995 | 16 November 1005 |
| Ælfheah | 16 November 1006 | 19 April 1012 |
| Lyfing (Ælfstan) | 1013 | 12 June 1020 |
| Æþelnoth | 13 November 1020 | 28×9 October or 1 November 1038 |
| Eadsige | late 1038 | 29 October 1050 |
| Robert of Jumièges | March 1051 | September 1052 |
| Stigand | 1052 | 11 April 1070 |
| Lanfranc | 29 August 1070 | 28 May 1089 |
| Anselm | 4 December 1093 | 21 April 1109 |
| Ralph d’Escures | 26 April 1114 | 20 October 1122 |
| William of Corbeil | 18 February 1123 | 21 November 1136 |
| Theobald of Bec | 8 January 1139 | 18 April 1161 |
| Thomas Becket | 3 June 1162 | 29 December 1170 |
| Richard of Dover | 7 April 1174 | 16 February 1184 |
| Baldwin | 16 December 1184 | 19×20 November 1190 |
| Reginald Fitz Jocelin | 27 November 1191 | 26 December 1191 |
| Hubert Walter | 12 December 1193 | 13 July 1205 |
| Reginald | July to October 1205 | 1 October × 20 December 1205 |
| John de Gray | 11 December 1205 | 30 March 1206 |
| Stephen Langton | 17 June 1207 | 9 July 1228 |
| Walter de Eynesham | 3 August 1228 | 4×5 January 1229 |
| Richard Grant (Wethershed) | 10 June 1229 | 3 August 1231 |
| Ralph Nevill | 22 September 1231 | 20 December 1231 |
| John of Sittingbourne | 16 March 1232 | 12 June 1232 |
| John Blund | 26 August 1232 | 1 June 1233 |
| Edmund of Abingdon | 2 April 1234 | 16 November 1240 |
| Boniface of Savoy | 15 January 1245 | 18 July 1270 |
| Adam of Chillenden | 9 September 1270 | Summer 1272 |
| Robert Kilwardby | 26 February 1273 | 5 June 1278 |
| Robert Burnell | 14 June ×10 July 1278 | 31 December 1278 × 28 January 1279 |
| John Pecham | 19 February 1279 | 8 December 1292 |
| Robert Winchelsey | 12 September 1294 | 11 May 1313 |
| Thomas Cobham | 28 May 1313 | 1 October 1313 |
| Walter Reynolds | 1 October 1313 | 16 November 1327 |
| Simon Meopham | 5 June 1328 | 12 October 1333 |
| John Stratford | 26 November 1333 | 23 August 1348 |
| John Offord | 14 December 1348 | 20 May 1349 |
| Thomas Bradwardine | 19 July 1349 | 25×6 August 1349 |
| Simon Islip | 20 December 1349 | 26 April 1366 |
| Simon Langham | 5 November 1366 | 28 November 1368 |
| William Whittlesey | 15 January 1369 | 5×6 June 1374 |
| Simon Sudbury | 5 June 1375 | 14 June 1381 |
| William Courtenay | 23 October 1381 | 31 July 1396 |
| Thomas Arundel | 11 January 1397 | 30 November 1397 |
| Roger Walden | 21 January 1398 | 19 October 1399 |
| Thomas Arundel | 21 October 1399 | 19 February 1414 |
| Henry Chichele | 30 May 1414 | 12 April 1443 |
| John Stafford | 25 June 1443 | 25 May 1452 |
| John Kempe | 6 September 1452 | 22 March 1454 |
| Thomas Bourgchier | 22 August 1454 | 30 March 1486 |
| John Morton | 6 December 1486 | 15×6 September 1500 |
| Thomas Langton | January 1501 | 27 January 1501 |
| Henry Deane | 2 August 1501 | 15/17 February 1503 |
| William Warham | 24 January 1504 | 22 December 1532 |
| Thomas Cranmer | 30 March 1533 | 13 November 1553 |
| Reginald Pole | 22 March 1556 | 18 × 19 November 1558 |
| Matthew Parker | 17 December 1559 | 17 May 1575 |
| Edmund Grindal | 15 February 1576 | 6 July 1583 |
| John Whitgift | 23 September 1583 | 29 February 1604 |
| Richard Bancroft | 10 December 1604 | 2 November 1610 |
| George Abbot | 9 April 1611 | 4 August 1633 |
| William Laud | 19 September 1633 | 10 January 1645 |
| William Juxon | 20 September 1660 | 4 June 1663 |
| Gilbert Sheldon | 31 August 1663 | 9 November 1677 |
| William Sancroft | 27 January 1678 | 1 February 1690 |
| John Tillotson | 31 May 1691 | 22 November 1694 |
| Thomas Tenison | 16 January 1695 | 14 December 1715 |
| William Wake | 16 January 1716 | 24 January 1737 |
| John Potter | 28 February 1737 | 10 October 1747 |
| Thomas Herring | 24 November 1747 | 13 March 1757 |
| Matthew Hutton | 29 April 1757 | 19 March 1758 |
| Thomas Secker | 21 April 1758 | 3 August 1768 |
| Frederick Cornwallis | 30 September 1768 | 19 March 1783 |
| John Moore | 26 April 1783 | 18 January 1805 |
| Charles Manners Sutton | 21 February 1805 | 21 July 1828 |
| William Howley | 15 August 1828 | 11 February 1848 |
| John Bird Sumner | 10 March 1848 | 6 September 1862 |
| Charles Thomas Longley | 26 November 1862 | 28 October 1868 |
| Archibald Campbell Tait | 30 December 1868 | 1 December 1882 |
| Edward White Benson | 3 March 1883 | 11 October 1896 |
| Frederick Temple | 22 December 1896 | 22 December 1902 |
| Randall Thomas Davidson | 6 February 1903 | 12 November 1928 |
| Cosmo Gordon Lang (Baron Lang of Lambeth 1942) | 30 November 1928 | 31 March 1942 |
| William Temple | 17 April 1942 | 26 October 1944 |
| Geoffrey Francis Fisher | 2 February 1945 | 31 May 1961 |
| Arthur Michael Ramsey | 21 June 1961 | 15 November 1974 |
| Frederick Donald Coggan | 5 December 1974 | 25 January 1980 |
| Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie | 25 February 1980 | 31 January 1991 |
| George Carey | 19 April 1991 | |