Election of Berhtwald

Date: July 1, 692 • Location: London, United Kingdom

Berhtwald was elected Archbishop of Canterbury.

Berhtwald was the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury in England. His predecessor had been Theodore of Tarsus. Berhtwald begins the first continuous series of native-born Archbishops of Canterbury, although there had been previous Anglo-Saxon archbishops, they did not succeed each other until Berhtwald's successor Tatwine.