Editing Lambeth Conference (section)

===Eleventh: 1978===
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*Presided over by [[Donald Coggan]]
*440 bishops attended.<ref>''The New Encyclopædia Britannica'', 1997 Edition, Volume 7: p120.</ref>
This conference "recognised the autonomy of each of its member churches...legal right of each Church to make its own decision" about [[women priests]]. It also denounced the use of capital punishment and called for a common lectionary.

This was the first conference to be held on the campus of the [[University of Kent|University of Kent at Canterbury]] where every subsequent conference has been held.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/lambeth-conference.html |title=University of Kent. |access-date=29 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210203358/http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/lambeth-conference.html |archive-date=10 February 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

The 1978 Conference included forty assistant bishops.<ref>[http://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=78057 “Lambeth Conference Opens July 23 in Canterbury” (Episcopal News Service, March 9, 1978).]</ref>