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Donald Coggan

Frederick Donald Coggan, Baron Coggan PC

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

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(29 December, 1909 – 17 May, 2000) was the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, the Episcopal see that churches must be in communion with in order to be a part of the Anglican Communion....
from 1974 to 1980, during which time he visited Rome and met the Pontiff

Pontiff

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, in company with Bishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, future Cardinal of England and Wales.

Background
Born in Highgate

Highgate

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, London

London

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, England

England

Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood

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and St. John's College, Cambridge. He studied Oriental Languages from 1928 to 1931 and took a first in both parts of the tripos, achieving a rare and distinguished double first.

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Frederick Donald Coggan, Baron Coggan PC

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Archbishop of Canterbury

Pontiff

Background

Born in Highgate

Highgate

Highgate is a village in North London on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath. Highgate rises to an altitude of at Highgate Wood and at North Hill....
, London

London

England

Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood

Semitic

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languages at the University of Manchester

University of Manchester

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from 1931 to 1934, a professor of the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
at Wycliffe College

Wycliffe College

Wycliffe College is an Anglican Church of Canada seminary at the University of Toronto. It is evangelicalism and Low church in orientation. On the other hand, the University of Toronto's other Anglican college, the University of Trinity College is Anglo-Catholicism in outlook....
in Toronto

Toronto

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from 1937 to 1944, and principal of London College of Divinity from 1944 to 1956.

Life and work

He was ordained a priest

Priest

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in 1935, appointed Bishop of Bradford

Bishop of Bradford

The Bishop of Bradford is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Bradford, England, in the Province of YorkThe diocese covers the extreme west of Yorkshire, and has its Episcopal see in the Bradford where the seat is located at the Bradford Cathedral....
in 1956 and translated to Archbishop of York

Archbishop of York

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in 1965. After his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury he was granted a life peerage

Life peer

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and made Baron Coggan, of Canterbury and Sissinghurst

Sissinghurst

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in the County of Kent

Kent

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His tenure as archbishop is noted for his strong support for the ordination of women

Ordination of women

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(which did not happen in the Church of England until 1994), having proposed it at the Lambeth Conference of the world's Anglican churches in 1970. His comparatively brief tenure was marked by his boldness, orderliness and punctuality. Aside from his duties of his primacy, he was a prolific writer - his works including Call To The Nation (1975). He was also a speaker and preacher, often accompanied by his wife, Jean Braithwaite.

Among his other roles was being Honorary President of the United Bible Societies

United Bible Societies

The United Bible Societies is a worldwide association of bible society. In 1946 in Haywards Heath as an effort to coordinate the activities of the bible societies, delegates from 13 countries formed the UBS, with headquarters in London and in Geneva....
from 1957 to 1976. His excellent knowledge of the scriptures meant he made an enormous contribution to the furthering of the organisation. He also founded the Lord Coggan Memorial Fund which helped to supply Russian children with copies of the Bible.

Known for his warm welcome, he is commonly credited with remarking that "The art of hospitality is to make guests feel at home when you wish they were." (as quoted in 'A Gentleman Publisher's Commonplace Book' John Murray, Oct 1996)

Lord Coggan died at the age of 90. He was cremated and his ashes buried at Canterbury Cathedral

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