COGGAN, (FREDERICK) DONALD, BARON

born Oct. 9, 1909, London Anglican archbishop of Canterbury from 1974 to 1980, theologian, educator, and the first Evangelical Anglican to become spiritual leader of the church in more than a century. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London, and St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1931), and ordained priest in 1935, he taught at the University of Manchester (193134) and Wycliffe College, Toronto, Ont. (193744), and was principal of the London College of Divinity (194456). Coggan was consecrated bishop of Bradford in 1956, elevated to archbishop of York in 1961, and succeeded Michael Ramsey as archbishop of Canterbury. He was elevated to a life peerage in 1980 as Baron Coggan of Canterbury and of Sissinghurst in the County of Kent. Among Coggan's writings are The Ministry of the Word (1945), The Glory of God (1950), Stewards of Grace (1958), Christian Priorities (1963), Convictions (1975), The Name above All Names (1981), and Mission to the World (1982). He also served on the panel of scholars who produced the New English Bible.