Conservative Anglicans, primarily in Africa, who are against female bishops, criticized Sarah Mullally’s appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury right away after she was chosen the first female head of the Church of England on Friday.
In addition to being the ceremonial leader of 85 million Anglicans globally, Mullally, like her predecessors, will have a difficult time overcoming the gap between conservatives and more liberal Christians in the West.
The 63-year-old former career nurse, in her first speech at Canterbury Cathedral, denounced antisemitism in the wake of Thursday’s attack on a Manchester synagogue that killed two men, as well as the safeguarding problems and sexual abuse scandals that plague the Church.
