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  Robert Runcie - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie (October 2, 1921 – July 11, 2000) was the 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991.
Runcie advocated the Papacy as having a 'primacy of honour' rather than 'primacy of jurisdiction' over the Anglican church.
Lord Runcie's wife, Rosalind, was well-known as a pianist.
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 Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Runcie was born Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie on October 2nd, 1921 in Crosby, a suburb of Liverpool.
Runcie was known for being unguardedly blunt, as exemplified when his envoy Terry Waite's efforts to seek the release of three missionaries held hostage in Iran led to Waite's own internment for nearly 5 years in Lebanon.
Not all of Runcie's involvements and undertakings went awry: as Archbishop Runcie was instrumental in arranging the first visit by a Roman Catholic Pope to England in generations, hosting John Paul II at Canterbury in 1982.
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 Robert Runcie
Robert Runcie, who has died aged 78, might prove to have been the last of the patrician archbishops of Canterbury.
Runcie defended his work, but grew increasingly uneasy about it, both for the sake of Waite's personal safety, and because the Lambeth Conference, which Waite should have been organising, was fast approaching.
When the book was almost complete, Runcie was horrified that, far from being the seriously researched history of his episcopate he had expected, much of it, he felt, was simply transcribed conversations and gossip, including a number of old indiscretions Runcie had given off the record about the royal family.
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 Runcie of Cuddesdon, Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Kennedy, Robert F. attorney general and adviser during the administration of his brother Pres.
From 1980 until his retirement in 1991, Robert Runcie served as archbishop of Canterbury, primate of the Church of England, and titular head of the Anglican Communion.
Young, energetic, and tough-minded, Robert Kennedy emerged from the shadow of his older brother, President John Kennedy, to become a forceful political figure during the late 1950s and 1960s.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Runcie Lord Robert Alexander Kennedy Baron of Cuddesdon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Runcie, Lord Robert Alexander Kennedy, Baron of Cuddesdon (1921-2000), 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury(1980–1991), head bishop of the Church of...
Kennedy, Robert F(rancis) (1925-1968), United States political leader and legislator, brother of President John F. Kennedy, born in Brookline,...
Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856), German composer, a principal figure of the early Romantic movement in 19th-century music.
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 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Robert Runcie: obituary
Robert Runcie, who has died aged 78 after a long battle with cancer, might prove to have been the last of the patrician archbishops of Canterbury.
Robert Runcie grew up in Crosby, now a suburb of Liverpool, the youngest child of an electrical engineer at the local Tate and Lyle sugar factory.
A year later Runcie was instrumental in inviting the Pope John Paul II to Britain and was howled down by anti-papists in his native Liverpool for doing so.
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 Robert Runcie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This appreciation of Lord Runcie, with particular emphasis on his connections with Crosby in general, and St Faith’s Church in particular, first appeared in the September 2000 edition of St Faith's parish magazine ‘Newslink’; is was subsequently updated to record the installation of the Lord Runcie window.
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie was born in Crosby, the son of a Scottish electrical engineer at Tate and Lyle and a hairdresser of Irish descent.
Robert Runcie, the Reluctant Archbishop, by Humphrey Carpenter (Hodder and Stoughton, 1996)
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 Runcie, Robert Alexander Kennedy on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Runcie supported the ordination of women and other liberal Anglican positions and was often a critic of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's Conservative government.
Runcie was created a life peer in 1991.
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 Encyclopedia: October 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William Alexander Abbott aka Bud Abbott (October 2, 1897 – April 24, 1974) is a legendary American actor, producer and comedian from Asbury Park, New Jersey.
The Right Honourable Alexander Robert Todd, Baron Todd, OM, FRS (2 October 1907–10 January 1997) was a British biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the 1957 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Robert Earl Wilson (name changed from Earl Lawrence Wilson) (October 2, 1934 - April 23, 2005) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1959-60, 1962-66), Detroit Tigers (1966-1970) and San Diego Padres (1970).
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 Robert Runcie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1981 he married Charles, Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer, despite suspecting privately that they were ill-suited and that their marriage would not last.
Runcie's wife, Rosalind, was well-known as a pianist.
When he retired as Archbishop of Canterbury he was given a life peerage, enabling him to remain in the House of Lords where he had previously sat as Lord Spiritual.
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 Robert Runcie --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Scottish botanist Robert Brown was born in Montrose.
Born on Sept. 15, 1889, in Worcester, Mass., Robert Benchley gained a reputation as a humorist while working as an editor and writer in New York City in the early 1900s.
Robert Goddard and Wernher von Braun were two of the engineers who helped develop rockets.
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 Anglican Communion News Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Statement from the Archbishop of Canterbury on the death of Lord Runcie
But Robert will also be remembered for his deep Christian faith and the delightful sense of humour which was rarely absent from his faith and life.
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980-91.
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 Robert Runcie -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie (October 2, 1921 – July 11, 2000) was the 102nd (Click link for more info and facts about Archbishop of Canterbury) Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991.
He was born and spent his early life in (Click link for more info and facts about Great Crosby) Great Crosby, (A large city in northwestern England; its port is the country's major outlet for industrial exports) Liverpool.
He died of (Type genus of the family Cancridae) cancer in 2000.
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 Runcie, Robert Alexander Kennedy, Baron Runcie
He was widely attacked for his liberalism, but believed himself that such changes would come eventually and that delay should be avoided.
Born in Birkenhead, near Liverpool, the son of an electrical engineer who went blind when Robert Runcie was 17, he became an archbishop from lower down the social scale than his predecessors.
Educated at Oxford University, after a year he was commissioned into the Scots Guards during World War II, and in 1945 was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery in battle.
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 Robert Alexander Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
Albert Victor Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough
Robert Alexander Anderson (1858 - 1916), politician, was the fourth Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving one term in 1894.
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 Popes & Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, etc.
Thus, Boniface VII (974), John XVI (997), Benedict X (1058), and Alexander V (1409) are now all Anti-Popes who nevertheless are figured in the numbering of subsequent Popes of their name.
Alexander VI Borgia was one of the most infamous Popes ever, with rumors of incest as well as murder dogging him.
Popes from a similiar family, the Medici, are featured in the genealogy of the Medici given with the rulers of Tuscany.
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 Anglicans Online | Home
Pity we don't publish obituaries about people whilst they are still alive; we think RAKR would enjoy seeing the outpouring of news and reflections about him.
If you didn't know Lord Runcie, you can get a clear sense of the man from reading what has been written about him: it's all linked in our News Centre.
Robert Runcie was a good man doing an impossible job in a bad time.
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 Anglican Journal -- Obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lord Runcie, who was primate from 1980 to 1991, died July 11 after a long battle with cancer.
In a letter to Canadian bishops, Primate Michael Peers recalled that the two were occasionally "sparring partners." Lord Runcie took the Primate to lunch in January and "although he was clearly dealing with both cancer and chemotherapy, he was an alert and gracious host," the primate wrote.
Ordained as a priest in 1950, he became vice-principal of Westcott House at Cambridge University in 1954 and was appointed bishop of St. Albans in 1970.
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 House Church Meetings: A Legal Analysis: Notes 1 (Gallagher)
Robert J. Cameron, 498 A.2d 1217, 1226 (1985).
("One should therefore erase from the mind any image of, say, the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, M.C., D.D., 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England, plopping down Canterbury Cathedral in the middle of bucolic Somerset County, or of the Camerons' neighborhood being transformed into St. Peter's Square.
The defendant, Robert J. Cameron, is a minister in the Reformed Episcopal Church, a denomination that includes, nationwide, some six or seven thousand adherents and 101 clergy.
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 Robert Runcie
Robert Runcie (Humphrey Carpenter; ISBN: 0340571071; 48% match)
Runcie, the making of an archbishop (Margaret Duggan; ISBN: 034032340X; L9.95; 48% match)
Runcie, Robert A. -- (Robert Alexander Kennedy),1921 (3)
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 runcie robert alexander kennedy - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 [2000: July] RE: Archbishop Runcie, Classicist with a social conscience
RE: Archbishop Runcie, Classicist with a social conscience
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Andrew Q. Morton, the irreverent Scots minister who created a stir in the 60s by using a computer for authorship studies of the New Testament epistles, claimed to have created a stir when he called "Author!" after Archbishop Runcie gave a speech.
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 AllRefer.com - Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie (Protestant Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie[run´sE] Pronunciation Key, 1921–2000, archbishop of Canterbury (1980–91).
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1921: Birth of Robert (Alexander Kennedy) Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury who was the first to be appointed by the church and not by political consultation.
She entered parliament in 1959, became Minister of Education 1970-74, and defeated Edward Heath for leadership of the Conservative Party in 1975.
1951: Margaret Roberts (Thatcher), at 26, was the youngest candidate to stand at a General Election.
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 The Anglican Province of Christ the Good Shepherd - Diocese of Central Colombia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Co-consecrators were the Right Reverend Jose Berardo Arango Marin, First bishop of Bogota, D.C., and the Right Reverend Rosendo Usuga Higuita, Coadjutor Bishop of Bogota, D.C. Vicente Ney Valero Quila was consecrated December 8, 1996, by the Right Reverend Howard Edwin Caudill, Second Anglican Bishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Howard Edwin Caudill was consecrated March 25, 1983, by the Right Reverend Robert C. Harvey, First Bishop of the Southeast, USA.
Robert C. Harvey was consecrated in 1981 by the right Reverend James O. Mote, First Bishop of the Diocese of the Most Holy Trinity, USA.
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 Episcopal Succession - Main List
ROBERT WYVIL as Bishop of Salisbury, who on the 12th March 1340 consecrated
ROBERT HAY DRUMMOND as Bishop of St. Asaph (1761 Salisbuty, 1761 York) who on the 17th February 1771 consecrated
ROBERT ALEXANDER KENNEDY RUNCIE as Bishop of St Alban's (1980 Canterbury) who in 1987 consecrated
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 [2000: July] Archbishop Runcie, Classicist with a social conscience
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Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie was born in Liverpool on Oct. 2,
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 England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He attempted a reconciliation with Harold but when he asked what compensation the King of Norway could expect, his brother responded “seven feet of English soil, or as much more as he is taller than other men.”
Robert Comine was appointed by William the Conqueror, but he was ambushed and killed by forces under the command of the Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Durham (see Durham)
In the span of nine years Waltheof managed to lead two rebellions against William the Conqueror, who had him beheaded.
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