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Repository	Archives of the Archbishop of Westminster
Ref No	AAW/DOW/AP/9
Title	Archbishop William Godfrey
Date	1956-1963
Description	Papers from the Archbishop. Includes material on Africans, Archbishop of Birmingham, Archbishop of Canterbury, delinquency, Ministry of Education, foreign missions, guilds, Handicapped Children Pilgrimage Trust, immigrants, Jews, Little Way Association, Magna Carta Trust, National Catholic Youth Association, obscenity, Pontifical Aid Commission Societies, Refugee Year, Dollis Hill Hospital, The Tablet, United Nations, Vietnam and Westminster Diocesan Education Fund.
Admin_History	In 1938 Godfrey became the first Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, Gibraltar and Malta and he served in this post with such discretion that in 1953, long after the war, he became Archbishop of Liverpool and in 1956 Archbishop of Westminster. He was created Cardinal two years later. He died in London on 22 January 1963 aged 73.
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