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  The hilly landscape of Kent County, on the River Stour, Canterbury town sits, head chief of the Anglican Church, which has the right to crown kings. It was an ecclesiastical metropolis of England from 602, when St. Augustine of Canterbury later founded a monastery and a cathedral. Arhiepiscolul St. Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170 in the cathedral. After his canonization in 1172, became a place of pilgrimage. She was born on the ruins of a building from Roman times, in the twelfth-century lease was terminated in 1945, built in Gothic style. In WWII, the city was heavily bombed, but the cathedral was not damaged. The cathedral is the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the highest hierarchy of the Anglican Church, Rowan Williams operation. Cathedral, the former Abbey Church Sf.Martin Sf.Augustin and Canterbury in 1988, were included on the UNESCO world cultural heritage list.

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