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- Archbishop of Canterbury
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- Lord Coggan of Canterbury and Sissinghurst
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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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Coggan (accessed 18-3-2021) https://www.anglicannews.org/news/2000/05/lord-coggan-of-canterbury.aspx (accessed 18-3-2021)