Ex-Nurse, Sarah Mullally, becomes 106th Archbishop of Canterbury

Sixty-three-year-old former Nurse, Sarah Mullally, has been named the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury.

Mullally is the first woman to lead the Church of England.
She was named on Friday as the global head of Anglican community.
The Church of England is the mother church of global Anglicanism.
Her nomination by a committee tasked with finding a successor to Justin Welby, who stepped down earlier this year over an abuse scandal, has been approved by King Charles III, the UK government said.

Mullally was ordained a priest in 2002 and became the first female Bishop of London in 2018.
The church only began allowing women bishops in 2014 after years of bitter factional wrangling.
Mullally acknowledged the “huge responsibility” of her new role, but said she feels a sense of “peace and trust in God to carry me”.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed the appointment of the first woman to hold the role.

“The Church of England is of profound importance to this country. Its churches, cathedrals, schools and charities are part of the fabric of our communities,” he said in a statement, adding the new archbishop would “play a key role in our national life”.
Welby resigned after a report found the Church of England had covered up a 1970 serial abuse case and that he failed to report the abuses to authorities when they came to his attention in 2013.
The Anglican Church became the established state church following King Henry VIII’s split from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s.