Dame Sarah Mullally has been named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, the first woman to be chosen for the role.
Dame Sarah Mullally has been named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, the first woman to be chosen for the role.
A former National Health Service chief nurse, the 63-year-old became a priest in 2006 and was appointed as the first female Bishop of London in 2018.
It is the first time in nearly 500 years of history that the Church of England has nominated a woman to lead it.
"I look forward to sharing this journey of faith with the millions of people serving God and their communities in parishes all over the country and across the global Anglican Communion," she said in accepting her appointment.
She used her first public statement on Friday to condemn the horrific violence of Thursday's deadly attack on a synagogue in Manchester, saying "hatred and racism cannot tear us apart".
The Church has been without someone in the top job for almost a year after Justin Welby resigned over a safeguarding scandal.
He stepped down after a damning report into a prolific child abuser associated with the Church.
It found that he could and should have reported John Smith's abuse of boys and young men to police in 2013.
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