https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...hop-canterbury
Quote:
The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has announced that he will step down after facing mounting pressure to quit over his handling of an abuse scandal.
Pressure on Welby has been intensifying since the publication last week of a damning report on the church’s cover-up of John Smyth’s abuse in the UK in the late 1970s and early 80s, and later in Zimbabwe and South Africa. About 130 boys are believed to have been victims.
The independent Makin review into the abuse concluded that he might have been brought to justice had the archbishop formally reported it to police a decade ago.
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His position was untenable since the report came out but this is a shocking fall from grace. I am not especially up with the Anglican community but he seemed rather respected outside of it at least.
Also, our atheist Prime Minister now has to 'advise', i.e pick, the next archbishop. I know that a committee decides it and the PM just passes that advice on but interesting. Have we had a PM who wasn't a member of the Church of England do this before? Sunak would have counted but didn't have the chance.