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...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...
...Church Times, England's leading Anglican publication, praised Coggan as a man of "true evangelistic zeal and fervor" who was taking on a job that was "no bed of roses." Wrote Mervyn Stockwood, the liberal and nonconformist Bishop of Southwark, in the London Times: "I placed Donald Coggan at the top of the list. [He] is well aware of the problems that confront a generation that has been reared in a scientific era ... [He] is increasingly aware of the need for the church to concern itself with practical affairs." Others praised Coggan's efficiency and administrative abilities...
...Coggan is not considered in Ramsey's league as an intellectual, but he has excellent credentials. He earned a double first at Cambridge, has written nine books and coordinated the translation of the New English Bible from Greek and Hebrew. A teacher of Semitic languages, he once responded graciously to an introduction by a Jewish lord mayor of London with a discourse in Hebrew. Bespectacled and gray-haired, Coggan has a quietly appealing air of informality; he is as open and relaxed as Ramsey is reserved. A family man (two daughters, one a teacher in England, the other...
...Coggan began his career in a working-class parish, and as a bishop has kept contact with ordinary folk by visiting breweries, mines and shipyards. He occasionally dons a cassock, but generally wears a simple pin-stripe suit with purple vest. Says he: " 'Your Grace' and all that doesn't mean very much to me. It's not the label on the bottle but what's inside that matters...
...most striking fact about Coggan is that he is the first product of the church's Evangelical (Low Church) wing to become primate since John Bird Sumner was appointed 126 years...