Donald Coggan

Frederick Donald Coggan, Baron Coggan PC ( born December 23, 1909 in Highgate, London, † 17 May 2000, Winchester ) was Archbishop of Canterbury and previously Archbishop of York.

Coggan studied at the Merchant Taylors ' School in Northwood and at St. John's College, Cambridge. From 1928 to 1931 he studied Oriental languages ​​.

After he was ordained a priest in 1935, he became in 1956 Bishop of Bradford and later Archbishop of York and Canterbury. He has appeared in the 1970s for the ordination of women; well it was a concern of the ecumenical dialogue. In Rome, he asked during an ecumenical meeting in 1977, without any preliminary discussion of protocol with his hosts in the Vatican, to the unlimited admission of Anglican Communion in Catholic masses.

His straightforward and open way gave him access to a wide population; in his scientific work, he strove for simple, easy -to-understand Bible translations; he was involved in the publication of the New English Bible (1961) and Revised English Bible (1989). He himself wrote more than 20 books: they were evangelical colored, missionary and pastoral statements of the message of Jesus Christ to the people of today.

1980 Coggan stepped down as Archbishop of Canterbury to retire and was raised as Baron Coggan for Life Peer. He died at the age of 90 years. His ashes were buried in the garden of the cloister of the Cathedral of Canterbury.