Robert Runcie

The Most Reverend and Right Honourable The Lord Runcie MC PC
Archbishop of Canterbury
Church	Church of England
Province	Canterbury
Diocese	Canterbury
Installed	25 March 1980
Term ended	31 January 1991
Predecessor	Donald Coggan
Successor	George Carey
Other post(s)	Primate of All England
Orders
Ordination	24 December 1950 (deacon) December 1951 (priest) by Noel Hudson
Consecration	24 February 1970 by Michael Ramsey
Personal details
Born	Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie (1921-10-02)2 October 1921 Birkenhead, England
Died	11 July 2000(2000-07-11) (aged 78) St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Buried	St Albans Cathedral
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Spouse	Rosalind Turner ​ (m. 1957)​
Children	2, including James Runcie
Previous post(s)	Bishop of St Albans (1970–1980)
Alma mater	Brasenose College, Oxford Westcott House, Cambridge
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Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie, MC, PC (2 October 1921 – 11 July 2000) was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991, having previously been Bishop of St Albans. He travelled the world widely to spread ecumenicism and worked to foster relations with both Protestant and Catholic churches across Europe. He was a leader of the Liberal Anglo-Catholicism movement. He came under attack for expressing compassion towards bereaved Argentines after the Falklands War of 1982, and generated controversy by supporting women's ordination.^[1][2]

Biographer Adrian Hastings argues that Runcie was not a distinguished writer or thinker, but was a good administrator who made shrewd appointments, demanded quality, and recognised good performances.^[3]