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When Archbishop-designate Justin Welby visited the House of Bishops, he spoke about what he observed about the Episcopal Church.
Here is a round-up of some the reports and reactions to the appointment of Bishop Justin Welby to to be the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Right Rev. Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham, will be the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury. Here is the official announcement, a statement by our own Presiding Bishop and the first official remarks by Bishop Welby.
“There are fresh demands to reform the system of appointing Archbishops after suspicious bets were placed on the appointment of the next Archbishop of Canterbury,”
“The man expected to be named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, turned his back on a successful career in the oil industry
Sources have confirmed that the Eton-educated bishop will be announced as successor to Dr Rowan Williams as early as Friday, after the Crown Nominations Commission put his name forward to Downing Street.
BREAKING: Ruth Gledhill at The Times
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Looking back over his 10 years in office, Williams said, it seemed to him “that every attempt we’ve made to pin down exactly how reactive or corrective authority works in our Anglican family has run into the sand in one way or another.”
The Archbishop of The Church of Nigeria, Nicholas Okoh, has called for the selection of the Archbishop of Canterbury to be more international and for the post to be term-limited.