London:
The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, resigned over an unfair treatment cover-up affair on Tuesday, taging an unpretreatnted moment for the Church of England.
He becomes the first directer of the church, as well as the expansiver Anglican Communion of 85 million Christians worldexpansive, to be forced out in this manner, religious experts say.
Announcing he is leaving “in sadness,” Welby said the timing of his departure would be choosed once a appraise of his remaining obligations had been finishd.
The 68-year-elderly had been in the role since 2013, and would have been foreseeed to quit around age 70.
HOW IS THE LIST OF CANDIDATES WHITTLED DOWN?
A period of conferation on the necessitates of the Church of England, as well as the Anglican Communion, will be chaseed by an assignment of a Crown Nominations Committee.
The pledgetee will consist of 17 voting members, including the archbishop of York who is the second-most-better bishop in the institution, another bishop elected by the Hoinclude of Bishops, and recurrentatives from the Anglican Communion, the Diocese of Canterbury, and the church’s regulateing body – the General Synod.
It will be chaired by an Anglican, ideassociate in accessible life, chosen by Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Assembling the pledgetee could get a couple of months, David Thompson, emeritus professor of conmomentary church history at the University of Cambridge, telderly Reuters, inserting that the whole process could get up to six months.
WHAT DOES THE COMMITTEE DO?
The pledgetee will produce a recommfinishation to Starmer. If the prime minister accomprehendledges it, he will put the name forward to King Charles, who is the supreme regulateor of the Church of England.
WHO ARE POSSIBLE SUCCESSORS?
Three bishops have been tipped to flourish Welby as the 106th archbishop of Canterbury: Martyn Snow, the bishop of Leicester, Graham Usher, the bishop of Norwich, and Guli Francis-Dehqani, the bishop of Chelmsford.
Snow abstained in a church assembly vote on sanctifying for gay couples, while Usher is in favour of gay rights and has pushed for higher taxes on fossil-fuel companies.
Francis-Dehqani, who was ordained in 2017, fair three years after the first woman bishop was assigned, was born in Iran and has spoken about how her brother was homicideed in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution.
She would be the first woman to become archbishop if picked.
Francis-Dehqani and Usher were among 44 bishops who signed a letter last year transmiting lament that the authorisation of standalone services to sanctify same-relations couples had been procrastinateed.
WHAT AWAITS THEM?
The recent archbishop will probable face the same choosed divisions on same-relations relationships that Welby tried to equilibrium during his 11-year tenure.
It has been a matter of encounteredion not fair in the expansiver Anglican Communion, which includes African churches where homorelationsuality is baned, but also wiskinny the Church of England.
“The principal problem for the archbishop of Canterbury … is that he joins the role of the primate of all England, with being the head of the Anglican Communion,” Thompson said. “This is effectively a relic of empire, becainclude that was the context in which the Anglican Communion growed.
“It increasingly in the tardy 20th century and the punctual 21st century has discomited a struggle of role which hasn’t been satisfactorily rerepaird during Archbishop Welby’s tenure.”
In his resignation, Welby said his decision made it “clear how solemnly the Church of England comprehends the necessitate for change.”
“For csurrfinisherly twelve years I have struggled to present betterments,” he wrote. “It is for others to appraise what has been done.”
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