Word: archbishop
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...Donald Coggan, 64, named by the Queen last week as the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury, may be the last primate chosen by this method. He will take over from A. Michael Ramsey, who will retire in November at the age of 70, a church that is struggling to gain greater independence from the state* and, above all, to survive despite the enormous apathy among its members...
...Archbishop of York, he has been Britain's second-ranking churchman since 1961, and he is known as a fine preacher, administrator and scholar. Another leading candidate was Bishop John Howe, who administers the worldwide Anglican Consultative Council and who, at 53, may yet have a chance at the top post. Coggan is generally viewed as an interim leader; he is expected to follow Ramsey's precedent and retire at 70, which will give him only five years in office. Meanwhile other, younger bishops will be seasoned, and a logical successor may emerge...
Died. James Cardinal McGuigan, 79, the first English-Canadian cardinal and from 1935 to 1971 Archbishop of Toronto; of a heart attack; in Toronto. In 1930 McGuigan became Archbishop of Regina, Sask.-at 35 the world's youngest archbishop. During the Depression, he sold his bishop's palace to the Franciscans to ease his diocese's heavy debts. In 1946 the soft-spoken cleric was elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope Pius...
Lawrence Cardinal Shehan, 76, is a slight (5 ft. 5 in.), self-effacing prelate who as Archbishop of Baltimore has been a tenacious fighter for liberal causes. Named to the diocese in 1961, Shehan issued, a year later, a blunt pastoral letter demanding the end of racial discrimination in all phases of Catholic life. He lent personal weight to his words by joining Martin Luther King's 1963 march on Washington. When Pope Paul VI named him cardinal in 1965, Shehan viewed the honor as a papal endorsement of "racial justice." But he was not always so heartily endorsed...
Last week word came from Rome that Pope Paul VI had accepted the cardinal's resignation as archbishop, tendered last year when Shehan reached the recommended retirement age of 75. Baltimore's new archbishop will be Bishop William Borders, 60, of Orlando, Fla., a prelate known for his programs to help migrant workers and other poor. Shehan will remain a cardinal for the rest of his life...