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Archbishop Of Canterbury
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Residence and Regalia
The official metropolitan residence is Lambeth Palace, located in Lambeth, south London, despite the archbishopric being seated in Canterbury. This geographical split is a vestige of a $13$th-century property dispute involving a particularly obstinate landlord near Canterbury who refused to vacate the desired plot of land adjacent to St. Augustine's Abbey, allegedly due to an unfulfilled promise to plant an extremely ra…