One of my regular readers recently sent me this rendering of the armorial bearings of the Most Rev. John Wilson (57), the current Metropolitan Archbishop of Southwark. The archdiocese takes in everything in London south of the River Thames and the County of Kent. (London north of the Thames is the Archdiocese of Westminster, making London one of the only cities to contain not only more than one diocese but actually to contain two ARCHdioceses).

It is interesting to note the quartering with the pall (pallium). This mirrors the original use of the pall. In the days before diocesan coats of arms the pall was employed by any Metropolitan Archbishop as a heraldic charge indicating his status as a Metropolitan.