| Repository | Lambeth Palace Library |
| Level | File |
| Alt Ref No | CFR RC 8/2 |
| Extent | 150 ff. |
| Title | Relations with the Vatican: Contacts: Pope John Paul II |
| Date | 1979 |
| Description | Papers relating to Pope John Paul II, including: correspondence with the Revd. Harry Smythe including arrangements for Papal Audiences and reports on the Anglican Centre (ff.1-2, 4-5, 7-8, 56-60, 63-67, 86-87, 136); correspondence between Archbishop Coggan and Pope John Paul II (ff.11-12, 51-54, 62, 72-73, 97-98, 116-117, 122-129, 131-135, 137-138); report by Geoffrey Crossley, British Legation to the Holy See, on the first four months of Pope John Paul II, with comments by Foreign Office staff and text of homilies delivered in Mexico (ff.15-39); correspondence and memoranda about the encyclical 'Redemptor Hominis' (ff.40-50); discussion of possible meeting between Archbishop Coggan and Pope John Paul in the Holy Land and possible text of a Common Declaration (ff.70, 74-85, 88-89, 91-121); press release on Bishop Runcie's reaction to news of a possible Papal Visit (f.130); message for the Day of Peace 1980 (ff.143-150). |
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| Code | Name | Dates |
| GB/109/17935 | John Paul II (1920-2005); Pope | 1920-2005 |
| 298 | Coggan; Frederick Donald (1909-2000); Baron Coggan; Archbishop of Canterbury | 1909-2000 |
| GB/109/16873 | Crossley; Geoffrey Allan (1920-); diplomat | 1920- |
| DS/UK/6373 | Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Foreign Office; 1922- | 1922- |
| 516 | Runcie; Robert Alexander Kennedy (1921-2000); Archbishop of Canterbury | 1921-2000 |
| GB/109/12133 | Smythe; Harry Reynolds (1923-2005); Director, Anglican Centre in Rome | 1923-2005 |
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