Editing Charles Longley (section)

==Life==
He was born at [[Rochester, Kent]], the fifth son of the late John Longley, [[Recorder (legal office)|Recorder]] of Rochester,<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1868/10/29/78959637.pdf "Obituary: Charles Thomas Longley, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury"] ''[[The New York Times]]'', 29 October 1868, p. 4, ([https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B06E1D61330EE34BC4151DFB6678383679FDE citation only]). Retrieved 3 December 2008</ref> and educated at [[Westminster School]] and [[Christ Church, Oxford]], where he matriculated in 1812, graduating [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] 1815 ([[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|M.A.]] 1818), [[Bachelor of Divinity|B.D.]] and [[Doctor of Divinity|D.D.]] 1829.<ref name="al-oxon">{{alox2|title=Longley, Charles Thomas}}</ref>

At Christ Church, Longley was reader in Greek 1822, tutor and censor 1825–8, and proctor 1827.<ref name="al-oxon"/> He was ordained in 1818, and was appointed vicar of [[Cowley, Oxford]], in 1823. In 1827, he received the rectory of [[West Tytherley]], [[Hampshire]], and two years later he was elected headmaster of [[Harrow School]]. He held this office until 1836, when he was consecrated bishop of the new see of [[Bishop of Ripon (modern diocese)|Ripon]]. In 1856 he became [[Bishop of Durham]], and in 1860 he became [[Archbishop of York]].

In 1862, he succeeded [[John Bird Sumner]] as Archbishop of Canterbury. Soon afterwards the questions connected with the deposition of [[John William Colenso]] were referred to Longley but, while regarding Colenso's opinions as heretical and his deposition as justifiable, he refused to pronounce upon the legal difficulties of the case.

The chief event of his primacy was the meeting at [[Lambeth Palace|Lambeth]], in 1867, of the first [[Lambeth Conferences|Pan-Anglican conference of British, colonial and foreign bishops]]. His published works included numerous sermons and addresses. He died at [[Addington Palace|Addington Park]], near [[Croydon]].

Like Sumner, he was a member of the [[Canterbury Association]] from 27 March 1848.<ref name=Blain>{{cite book
 | pages      = 51–52
 | last       = Blain
 | first      = Rev. Michael
 | title      = The Canterbury Association (1848–1852): A Study of Its Members' Connections
 | year       = 2007
 | publisher  = Project Canterbury |location=Christchurch
 | url        = http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/blain_canterbury2007.pdf
 | access-date = 23 March 2013
}}</ref>