{"id":8345,"date":"2025-10-03T13:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/sarah-mullally-appointed-first-woman-to-lead-church-of-england\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:57:29","slug":"sarah-mullally-appointed-first-woman-to-lead-church-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/sarah-mullally-appointed-first-woman-to-lead-church-of-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Mullally appointed first woman to lead Church of England"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Britain’s new Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, Sarah Mullally, speaks following the announcement of her posting, at Canterbury Cathedral in south east England on October 3, 2025. — AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Sarah Mullally was on Friday named the new Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England — which can trace its origins to the Roman empire — and the global Anglican community.<\/p>\n

Her nomination by a committee tasked with finding a successor to Justin Welby, who stepped down earlier this year over an abuse scandal, has been approved by King Charles III, the UK government said.<\/p>\n

The Church of England is the mother church of global Anglicanism. Mullally, 63, becomes the church’s 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, the first having been appointed in the late sixth century.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the former nurse acknowledged the “huge responsibility” of her new role, but said she feels a sense of “peace and trust in God to carry me”.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed the appointment of the first woman to hold the role.<\/p>\n

“The Church of England is of profound importance to this country. Its churches, cathedrals, schools, and charities are part of the fabric of our communities,” he said in a statement, adding the new archbishop would “play a key role in our national life.”<\/p>\n

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Welby resigned after a report found the Church of England had covered up a 1970s serial abuse case and that he failed to report the abuses to authorities when they came to his attention in 2013.<\/p>\n

According to the independent probe, John Smyth, a lawyer who organised evangelical summer camps in the 1970s and 1980s, was responsible for the abuse of as many as 130 boys and young men.<\/p>\n

Smyth died aged 75 in South Africa in 2018 while under investigation by British police. He never faced any criminal charges.<\/p>\n

The scandal shocked the UK and prompted widespread calls for reform in the Church of England, whose supreme governor is the British monarch.<\/p>\n

The Church of England has some 20 million baptised members, but the number of regular churchgoers is estimated at just under one million, according to figures for 2022.<\/p>\n

Mullally was appointed by King Charles III following a lengthy selection process under a former head of the MI5 domestic security service.<\/p>\n

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The Anglican Church became the established state church following King Henry VIII’s split from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s.<\/p>\n

Mullally was ordained a priest in 2002 and became the first female Bishop of London in 2018.<\/p>\n

The church only began allowing women bishops in 2014 after years of bitter factional wrangling.<\/p>\n

Some churches around the Anglican world — which collectively boasts some 85 million followers in more than 165 countries — had long permitted women bishops, with the first appointed in the United States in 1989.<\/p>\n

More than 40 of England’s 108 bishops are now women, with a similar proportion among priests, after women clergy were first permitted in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Britain’s new Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, Sarah Mullally, speaks following the announcement of her posting, at Canterbury Cathedral in south east England on October 3, 2025. — AFP Sarah Mullally was on Friday named the new Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England — which can trace its origins to…<\/p>\n

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