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Archbishop's Welsh visit

The Archbishop of Canterbury will start his weekend visit to Wales by visiting St John Baptist School in Aberdare to take lessons in RE.

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Archbishop of Canterbury to stand down

Rowan Williams is to step down after 10 years as Archbishop of Canterbury to take up a new post as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Dr Williams, 61, will leave at the end of December. Born in Swansea in 1950, he was bishop of Monmouth before being elected archbishop of Wales in 1999.

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