Coggan, Frederick Donald Rev Dr PC (1909-2000)

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Coggan, Frederick Donald Rev Dr PC (1909-2000)

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  • Archbishop of Canterbury

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  • Lord Coggan of Canterbury and Sissinghurst

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    Dates of existence

    1909-2000

    History

    1979; Cardinal Hume writing to Archbishop Coggan

    1909: born, Highgate, London
    1931 to 1934: Lecturer in Semitic languages and literature at Manchester University.
    1935: Ordained
    1937:Professor of New Testament at Wycliffe College, Toronto
    1944: Principal of the London College of Divinity
    1956: Bishop of Bradford
    1961: Archbishop of York
    1974 to 1980: Archbishop of Canterbury
    1980: Retired, made a life peer

    2000: died

    In 1977, in Rome, he called for inter-communion between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches. A year later when he preached in Westminster cathedral he gave his close friend Cardinal Basil Hume an advance copy of his text. He attended the enthronement in 1978 of Pope John Paul II, the first archbishop of Canterbury to be present at such a ceremony since the reformation.

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    London, Manchester, Bradford, Toronto, York

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    Anglican

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    P636

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