Lanfranc becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
1070 · Event
With the English episcopate purged, William installs the Italian lawyer-monk Lanfranc at Canterbury to Normanise the English church — within a generation almost every bishopric, abbey and cathedral in England is in continental hands, and being rebuilt in stone.
On these timelines: Norman Conquest, England, Master, Christianity, Major Religions
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