Church of England appoints Sarah Mullally first female Archbishop of Canterbury

Sarah Mullally was connected Friday named the caller Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the archetypal pistillate to pb the Church of England — which tin hint its origins to the Roman empire — and the planetary Anglican community.

Her information by a committee tasked with uncovering a successor to Justin Welby, who stepped down earlier this twelvemonth implicit an maltreatment scandal, has been approved by King Charles III, the UK authorities said.

The Church of England is the parent religion of planetary Anglicanism. Mullally, 63, becomes the church’s 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, the archetypal having been appointed successful the precocious sixth century.

In a statement, the erstwhile caregiver acknowledged the “huge responsibility” of her caller role, but said she feels a consciousness of “peace and spot successful God to transportation me”.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed the assignment of the archetypal pistillate to clasp the role.

“The Church of England is of profound value to this country. Its churches, cathedrals, schools, and charities are portion of the cloth of our communities,” helium said successful a statement, adding the caller archbishop would “play a cardinal relation successful our nationalist life.”

Welby resigned aft a study recovered the Church of England had covered up a 1970s serial maltreatment lawsuit and that helium failed to study the abuses to authorities erstwhile they came to his attraction successful 2013.

According to the autarkic probe, John Smyth, a lawyer who organised evangelical summertime camps successful the 1970s and 1980s, was liable for the abuse of arsenic galore arsenic 130 boys and young men.

Smyth died aged 75 successful South Africa successful 2018 portion nether probe by British police. He ne'er faced immoderate transgression charges.

The ungraded shocked the UK and prompted wide calls for betterment successful the Church of England, whose ultimate politician is the British monarch.

The Church of England has immoderate 20 cardinal baptised members, but the fig of regular churchgoers is estimated astatine conscionable nether 1 million, according to figures for 2022.

Mullally was appointed by King Charles III pursuing a lengthy enactment process nether a erstwhile caput of the MI5 home information service.

The Anglican Church became the established authorities religion pursuing King Henry VIII’s divided from the Roman Catholic Church successful the 1530s.

Mullally was ordained a clergyman successful 2002 and became the archetypal pistillate Bishop of London successful 2018.

The religion lone began allowing women bishops successful 2014 aft years of bitter factional wrangling.

Some churches astir the Anglican satellite — which collectively boasts immoderate 85 cardinal followers successful much than 165 countries — had agelong permitted women bishops, with the archetypal appointed successful the United States successful 1989.

More than 40 of England’s 108 bishops are present women, with a akin proportionality among priests, aft women clergy were archetypal permitted successful the aboriginal 1990s.

AFP

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