Sarah Mullally, once the country’s leading NHS nurse, later a trailblazing vicar in Sutton, has today been named as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to be appointed to the position in more than 1,400 years.
Canterbury calling: Dame Sarah Mullally has had her appointment approved by the King and the Prime Minister
“Sarah’s brilliant,” one local church-goer who knows Mullally well, told Inside Croydon this morning.
Mullally will be the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury since Augustine arrived on these shores in 597AD.
This is the first occasion that women have been eligible for the role, as female bishops weren’t consecrated by the CofE in 2013, when the last Archbishop was chosen. A decade on from when women started being consecrated, they now make up close to one-third of all bishops in England.
Inevitably, Mullally will face a number of stern challenges as the most senior prelate of the established Church of England and head of the Anglican church around the world, not least resistance from deeply conservative elements within the CofE who object to the ordination of women, let alone their promotion to such an important position. Continue reading
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