Sarah Mullally has been named the next archbishop of Canterbury, a historic decision by the Church of England that places, for the first time, a woman as leader of the church and as first among equals among bishops in the 85 million-strong worldwide Anglican Communion.
The appointment of Mullally, currently the Bishop of London, was confirmed by Downing Street on the morning of October 3 after being approved by King Charles III. The announcement comes 10 months after the dramatic resignation of Justin Welby following a decade-old scandal involving a prolific abuser in Christian youth camps.
A former chief nurse of the National Health Service, Mullally has helped the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, run the Church of England in the interregnum since Welby quit.
