High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie PC, MC (2 October 1921 ? 11 July 2000) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991. He was born and spent his early life in Great Crosby, a suburb of Liverpool, Lancashire, to middle class and rather non-religious parents. He initially attended St Luke's Church, Crosby (where he was confirmed in 1936), before switching to the Anglo-Catholic St Faith's Church about a mile down the road. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby before going up to Brasenose College, Oxford.