FILE — The Bishop of London Sarah Mullally speaks in the course of the Service of Prayer and Reflection following the dying of Queen Elizabeth II, at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, Friday Sept. 9, 2022.
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LONDON — Sarah Mullally has been named as the brand new Archbishop of Canterbury. She’s the primary girl ever chosen to guide the world’s 85 million Anglicans. Her appointment was introduced Friday by the Church of England and the U.Ok. authorities. She was elected by the School of Canons of Canterbury Cathedral, and accredited by King Charles III.
Mullally, 63, is a former nurse and till at present, was the Bishop of London. She’s the fourth girl to be ordained within the Church’s historical past. She additionally sits within the Home of Lords, the higher home of the UK’s parliament. In 1999, she grew to become the youngest particular person to be appointed as chief nursing officer for England.
In her 2018 opening sermon as Bishop of London, Mullally informed the congregation that 105 years in the past, suffragettes tried to detonate a bomb underneath the seat on which she been enthroned moments earlier.
“Let me reassure you I do not come carrying bombs — or perhaps not literal ones anyway!”
“But I am aware that as the first woman Bishop of London I am necessarily subversive — and it’s a necessity I intend to embrace,” she mentioned on the time.
Mullally replaces the previous archbishop, Justin Welby, who introduced his resignation in November. The Anglican Communion faces divisions over the therapy of girls and LGBTQ folks, and Mullally must confront issues that church leaders have not finished sufficient to stamp out the sexual abuse scandals which have dogged the church for greater than a decade.
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