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...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...
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...
...Ramsey, with his bobbing eyebrows and familiar stutter, was a colorful man whom Hollywood might have cast in the archiepiscopal role. No evangelist, he was primarily interested in ecumenism, theology and social issues. Appropriately for a High Church man, his major accomplishment was his rapprochement with Roman Catholicism, which led to agreements on the Eucharist and the ministry by a joint theological commission. His major failure, perhaps, was the defeat of his plan to merge with the Methodists, England's third largest church group after the Anglicans and Roman Catholics; the Anglican General Synod turned down Ramsey...
...social outlook, Ramsey usually gave firm support to Third World causes, attacking not only South African apartheid but also Britain's curb on immigration of Kenyan Asians with British passports. In one rash moment, he informed the government that it would be morally right to send troops to protect the rights of black Rhodesians against the white regime...
Some younger churchmen find Ramsey's successor too conservative...