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Archbishop Anselm

Anselm
Archbishop of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury, seal (SVG).svg
Anselm depicted in his personal seal
Appointed 1093
Term ended (1109-04-21)21 April 1109
Predecessor Lanfranc
Successor Ralph d'Escures
Other posts Abbot of Bec
Orders
Consecration 4 December 1093
Personal details
Birth name Anselmo d'Aosta
Born c. 1033
Aosta, Arles, HRE
Died 21 April 1109
Canterbury, England
Buried Canterbury Cathedral
Parents Gundulph
Ermenberga
Occupation Monk, prior, abbot, archbishop
Sainthood
Feast day 21 April
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism
Title as Saint Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of the Church
(Doctor Magnificus)
Canonized 1163
by Pope Alexander III
Attributes His mitre, pallium, and crozier
His books
A ship, representing the spiritual independence of the Church.
Anselm
Era Medieval philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Scholasticism
Main interests
Metaphysics, theology
Notable ideas
Ontological argument

Anselm of Canterbury (/ˈænsɛlm/) (1033/4-1109), also called Anselm of Aosta (Italian: Anselmo d'Aosta) after his birthplace and Anselm of Bec (French: Anselme du Bec) after his monastery, was a Benedictine monk, abbot, philosopher and theologian of the Catholic Church, who held the office of archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109. After his death, he was canonized as a saint; his feast day is 21 April.

Beginning at Bec, Anselm composed dialogues and treatises with a rational and philosophical approach, sometimes causing him to be credited as the founder of Scholasticism. Despite his lack of recognition in this field in his own time, Anselm is now famed as the originator of the ontological argument for the existence of God and of the satisfaction theory of atonement. He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by a bull of Pope Clement XI in 1720.


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