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[[George Carey]] was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002.<ref>[http://www.glcarey.co.uk/Pages/Biography.html Biography], Official Website of Lord Carey of Clifton, accessed 16 February 2010.</ref>
 
[[George Carey]] was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002.<ref>[http://www.glcarey.co.uk/Pages/Biography.html Biography], Official Website of Lord Carey of Clifton, accessed 16 February 2010.</ref>
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[[Damian Thompson]] wrote of Carey in November 2006:
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::As Primate of All England, he was dismissed as a self-important booby: Captain Mainwaring in a mitre. Since his retirement in 2002, however, he has become "the king over the water" for conservative evangelical Anglicans, who – thanks to mushrooming churches in Africa – now far outnumber communicants of the Church of England.<ref>Damian Thompson, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3634543/The-archbishops-days-are-numbered.html The archbishop's days are numbered], telegraph.co.uk, 24 November 2006.</ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 06:55, 5 March 2010

George Carey was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002.[1]

Damian Thompson wrote of Carey in November 2006:

As Primate of All England, he was dismissed as a self-important booby: Captain Mainwaring in a mitre. Since his retirement in 2002, however, he has become "the king over the water" for conservative evangelical Anglicans, who – thanks to mushrooming churches in Africa – now far outnumber communicants of the Church of England.[2]

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  1. Biography, Official Website of Lord Carey of Clifton, accessed 16 February 2010.
  2. Damian Thompson, The archbishop's days are numbered, telegraph.co.uk, 24 November 2006.