The next in the sequence - Michael Ramsey, Donald Coggan, Robert Runcie - is...?
Michael Turnbull discharge and ordered to pay costs of £6.30. The disclosure of Turnbull's gross indecency conviction came just four weeks before his scheduled enthronement. His past was known to the archbishops of Canterbury George Carey and York Stuart Blanch, to Lord Runcie, the previous archbishop and to Lord Coggan, whom Turnbull had acted as chaplain when the offence took place. According to close associates, Turnbull "seriously considered withdrawing" from his enthronement "when his past was revealed." In his sermon during his enthronement, Turnbull spoke of the "gravity of sin" and of his "repentance". He told the congregation that he had been
Rosalind Runcie retire in November. His successor was to be appointed by Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In April, Ladbrokes had already announced the betting odds as to who the next archbishop would be. Runcie, whose husband was at the time Bishop of St Albans and considered a likely candidate, was reported by "Time" magazine to have disapproved of the entire process: "It's revolting to turn important church affairs into a horse race." The archbishop appointed was Donald Coggan, Archbishop of York, whom Ladbrokes had considered a leading candidate. That same year Robert Runcie was offered the position which