Editing Rowan Williams (section)

==Patronage==
Williams is patron of the Canterbury Open Centre run by [[Catching Lives]], a local charity supporting the destitute.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.catchinglives.org/about-us/ | title=About Us | publisher=Catching Lives | access-date=2 September 2010 | archive-date=11 February 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110211205844/http://www.catchinglives.org/about%2Dus/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> He has also been patron of the [[Peace Mala|Peace Mala Youth Project For World Peace]] since 2002, one of his last engagements as Archbishop of Wales being to lead the charity's launch ceremony.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.peacemala.org.uk/patrons/rowan.html |title=Archived copy |website=www.peacemala.org.uk |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030815001700/http://www.peacemala.org.uk/patrons/rowan.html |archive-date=15 August 2003 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In addition, he is president of [[WaveLength Charity]], a UK-wide organisation which gives TVs and radios to isolated and vulnerable people; every Archbishop of Canterbury since the charity's inception in 1939 has actively participated in this role.

Williams is also patron of the [[T. S. Eliot]] Society<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eliotsociety.org.uk|title=T S Eliot Society » of the United Kingdom|website=Eliotsociety.org.uk|access-date=23 December 2017}}</ref> and delivered the society's annual lecture in November 2013.

Williams was also patron of the Birmingham-based charity The Feast,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefeast.org.uk|title=Home|website=Thefeast.org.uk|access-date=23 December 2017}}</ref> from 2010 until his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Williams has been a patron of the Cogwheel Trust,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cogwheel.org.uk/about-us/|title=The Cogwheel Trust|website=Cogwheel Trust|language=en-GB|access-date=2 September 2019}}</ref> a local Cambridgeshire charity providing affordable counselling, since 2015 and is active in his support.

On 1 May 2013 he became chair of the board of trustees of [[Christian Aid]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christianaid.org.uk/aboutus/who/board/index.aspx|title=Our people, partners and sponsors - Christian Aid|website=Christianaid.org.uk|access-date=23 December 2017|archive-date=10 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010020259/http://www.christianaid.org.uk/aboutus/who/board/index.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is the Chair of Trustees of the [[Council for the Defence of the British Universities]] (CDBU).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cdbu.org.uk/who-we-are/ | title=Who we are }}</ref>

Together with [[Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie]], and Sir [[Daniel Day-Lewis]], Williams is a patron of the Wilfred Owen Association, formed in 1989 to commemorate the life and work of the [[World War I]] poet [[Wilfred Owen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/wilfred-owen-association|title=The Wilfred Owen Association|website=Wilfred Owen|access-date=21 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122072629/http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/wilfred-owen-association|archive-date=22 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He is the visitor of the [[Oratory of the Good Shepherd]], a dispersed Anglican religious community of male priests and lay brothers. He also acts as a visitor to the [[New monasticism|new monastic]] Holywell Community in [[Abergavenny]].

He is also a patron of the [[Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint Sergius]] which promotes ecumenical relationships between the Anglican and Orthodox churches.