© Paul Childs/WPA Pool/Getty ImagesThe Bishop of London Sarah Mullally • 2022
The Church of England has appointed its first female Archbishop of Canterbury, ending 1,400 years of male leadership. Former top British nurse, Sarah Mullally, was installed as the confession's highest-ranking clergy by a church synod on Friday.
Though female priests were first ordained in 1994, women were not permitted to take senior posts until 2014, a reform that followed years of internal schisms and debates within the Church.
Before entering the clergy, Mullally built a distinguished career in nursing, rising to become England's Chief Nursing Officer. She was ordained as a priest in 2002, and went on to serve as as Bishop of Crediton and then Bishop of London, the Church's third most senior post. Known for her inclusive stance, she has supported prayers and blessings for same-sex couples, framing her leadership around openness and pastoral care.
Her appointment follows the resignation of her predecessor Archbishop Justin Welby last November, after an inquiry found he failed to act on warnings about a pastor who had abused children for decades.
The second-most senior bishop in the Church of England, Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell, who took on caretaker functions after Welby's departure, has also come under fire after a BBC investigation found he had allowed a priest with a history of abuse allegations to remain in ministry. Though he remains in post.
Mullally's promotion has already drawn resistance from conservative factions within the Anglican Communion, particularly in Africa, where leaders have long opposed women in top clerical roles and condemned the Church of England's liberal stance on sexuality. GAFCON, a grouping of conservative Anglican churches, said the move showed the English church had "relinquished its authority to lead."
The Church of England is a Protestant denomination created in 1534, when King Henry VIII rejected the authority of the Roman Catholic Pope in a divorce dispute. Its titular head is the British monarch, while the Archbishop of Canterbury acts as its primate.
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It would seem now, if he is still a priest, he will be uncontrollably livid. It would also seem the COE are trying to get new people to join by showing their modernity by having a woman as archbishop. However the risk is that they will lose even more of their flock - which has diminished considerably since the 60s - a flock that have stood by rules, laws and traditions established from the Bible over centuries.
Perhaps it will turn into a womans church.
IMO, one can fool some of the people all the time...etc. Personally i think the human population needs to come to grips on Earth before wasting time and resources on supernatural doctrine.
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— Mr. Starmer, do you understand what you are doing? You are legalizing marriages between brothers and sisters, between parents and children. This carries catastrophic health risks for people, many of which can not be determined until the child is born. If this practice continues from generation to generation, the English people will disappear.”
Starmer: — Yes. I have already stated my position.
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However these raids at night are still occurring. Not in Russia but in Blighty! In the place where Communism and Marxism where created, one can get arrested in the wee small hours for upsetting a moron on farcebook. It seems these two chickens have come home to roost.
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ps - check out this comment: Like I said "bs"....
But still - don't poke the bear is common sense.