11th and 12th-century Archbishop of Canterbury, theologian, and saint
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Saint
Anselm
OSB
Archbishop of Canterbury Doctor of the Church
Anselm depicted on his seal
Church
Catholic Church
Archdiocese
Canterbury
See
Canterbury
Appointed
1093
Term ended
21 April 1109
Predecessor
Lanfranc
Successor
Ralph d'Escures
Other post(s)
Abbot of Bec
Orders
Consecration
4 December 1093
Personal details
Born
Anselme d'Aoste
c. 1033
Aosta, Kingdom of Burgundy, Holy Roman Empire
Died
21 April 1109 Canterbury, England
Buried
Canterbury Cathedral
Parents
Gundulph Ermenberge
Occupation
Monk, prior, abbot, archbishop
Sainthood
Feast day
21 April
Venerated in
Catholic Church Anglican Communion[1] Lutheranism[2]
Title as Saint
Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of the Church (Doctor Magnificus)
Canonized
4 October 1494 Rome, Papal States by Pope Alexander VI
Attributes
His mitre, pallium, and crozier His books A ship, representing the spiritual independence of the Church.
Philosophy career
Notable work
Proslogion Cur Deus Homo
Era
Medieval philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
British philosophy
Italian philosophy
School
Scholasticism Neoplatonism[3] Augustinianism
Main interests
Metaphysics, theology
Notable ideas
Argument from Degree Ontological argument Satisfaction theory of atonement
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Anselm of Canterbury OSB (/ˈænsɛlm/; 1033/4–1109), also called Anselm of Aosta (French: Anselme d'Aoste, Italian: Anselmo d'Aosta) after his birthplace and Anselm of Bec (French: Anselme du Bec) after his monastery, was an Italian[7] 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. He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by a papal bull of Pope Clement XI in 1720.
As Archbishop of Canterbury, he defended the church's interests in England amid the Investiture Controversy. For his resistance to the English kings William II and Henry I, he was exiled twice: once from 1097 to 1100 and then from 1105 to 1107. While in exile, he helped guide the Greek Catholic bishops of southern Italy to adopt Roman rites at the Council of Bari. He worked for the primacy of Canterbury over the archbishop of York and over the bishops of Wales but, though at his death he appeared to have been successful, Pope Paschal II later reversed papal decisions on the matter and restored York's earlier status.
Beginning at Bec, Anselm composed dialogues and treatises with a rational and philosophical approach, which have sometimes caused 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.
^Church Pension Fund (2010), p. [page needed].
^"Notable Lutheran Saints". Resurrectionpeople.org. Archived from the original on 16 May 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
^Charlesworth (2003), pp. 23–24.
^Smith (2014), p. 66.
^Davies & Leftow (2004), p. 120.
^Marrone (2014), p. 146.
^"Saint Anselm of Canterbury". Britannica.com. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
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