His publications include: Onward and Upward, a Confirmation preparation course, in 1990; Churches of the Middle East, in 1993; Letters to the Seven Churches in Revelation, and Lent and Us, in 1994; and he edited Building Bridges, a compilation of speeches given by the late Lord Robert Runcie, then Archbishop of Canterbury, on his visit to Pakistan.
After his retirement in 1991, Robert Runcie, former Archbishop of Canterbury and also a former vicar of Cuddesdon and college principal, took the title Baron Runcie of Cuddesdon.
At a joint service during the first official visit of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, to the Vatican, Runcie appealed to Anglicans to consider accepting papal primacy in a reunified church.
Much of the middle period of Runcie's archiepiscopate was taken up with the tribulations of two men who had been close to him—the suicide of Gareth Bennett and the kidnapping of Terry Waite.
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Runcie was born and spent his early life in Great Crosby, Merseyside, to middle class and rather non-religious parents.
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Its most internationally famous clergyman, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, formerly diocesan bishop of Raiwind in West Punjab, was given sanctuary by Robert Runcie, the then-Archbishop of Canterbury when his life was imperilled; he then taught at Oxford and served as Bishop of Rochester, England.
He was Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1955-9, and thereby became associated with some of the best known clerics of his generation: Mervyn Stockwood, John Robinson (author of the bestseller Honest to God), Robert Runcie and Trevor Huddleston.
The film at the time of its airing created a controversy in Britain when then Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie advised the BBC to postpone the showing of the film and the BBC writing a reply to him defending the airing of the broadcast.
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The then-Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie had been applying pressure to the BBC to postpone the broadcast of the film-poem.