Donald Coggan

The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Donald Coggan PC
Archbishop of Canterbury
Coggan in 1962
Church	Church of England
Diocese	Canterbury
In office	1974–1980
Predecessor	Michael Ramsey
Successor	Robert Runcie
Other post(s)	Primate of All England
Orders
Ordination	1935 by Arthur Winnington-Ingram
Consecration	25 January 1956 by Michael Ramsey
Personal details
Born	9 October 1909 Highgate, London, England
Died	17 May 2000 (aged 90) Winchester, Hampshire, England
Buried	Canterbury Cathedral
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Cornish Arthur Coggan & Fanny Sarah Chubb
Spouse	Jean Braithwaite (1909–2005)
Children	2
Previous post(s)	Bishop of Bradford (1956–1961) Archbishop of York (1961–1974)
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Frederick Donald Coggan, Baron Coggan, PC (9 October 1909 – 17 May 2000) was the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury from 1974 to 1980.^[1] As Archbishop of Canterbury, he "revived morale within the Church of England, opened a dialogue with Rome and supported women's ordination".^[2] He had previously been successively the Bishop of Bradford and the Archbishop of York.