Autumn Lecture Series 2025: Here I stand with Rowan Williams
(Monday 15th September 2025)
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Rowan Williams is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian, and poet, who served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. Educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and Wadham College, Oxford, he held academic posts at Cambridge and as Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford before becoming Bishop of Monmouth in 1992 and Archbishop of Wales in 2000. Rowan Williams is renowned for his intellectual depth, spiritual insight, and prayerfulness. He is a man of great wisdom, humility and insight.
Rowan Williams is a prolific author on theology, philosophy, and spirituality. Since stepping down as Archbishop, he has served as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and remains a prominent public intellectual, theologian, writer and speaker. His latest book Discovering Christianity: A Guide to the Curious was published in February 2025 He is the spiritual guide for St Martin-in-the-Fields’ Nazareth Community.
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