England’s former chief nursing officer is now the spiritual leader of the world’s Anglicans. Dame Sarah Mullally, the current Bishop of London, has been named as the.
England’s former chief nursing officer is now the spiritual leader of the world’s Anglicans. Dame Sarah Mullally, the current Bishop of London, has been named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury. She is the first woman to hold the role in its 1,400-year history and the first female leader of the Church of England in its nearly 500-year history, reports CNN. Her selection comes a decade after the Church of England first allowed women to become bishops, with Mullally herself consecrated as Bishop of Crediton in 2015, the Guardian reports.
Mullally was selected after a process that the New York Times reports was «as mysterious as the conclave» that selected Pope Leo XIV, but a lot lengthier, taking 11 months instead of 17 days.
