Sarah Mullally: 'Undertrained and inexperienced'

Gerald Bray  |  Comment
Date posted:  3 Oct 2025
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Sarah Mullally: 'Undertrained and inexperienced'

Image: Sarah Mullally who has today been named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury. Source: Wikimedia Commons

After months of speculation, the Church of England has finally appointed a new Archbishop of Canterbury. The first woman in the post, she is the current Bishop of London and as such has already played a senior role in the Church for several years.

Her theological training and ministerial experience are minimal. She was enrolled on a local ordination course rather than at a theological college and served a couple of part-time curacies before being very briefly rector of a parish church. She was soon promoted to the episcopate as suffragan bishop of Crediton, but her main achievement appears to be that she was a competent administrator in the National Health Service. Is a track record like that promising for a future Archbishop of Canterbury?

The short answer must be no.

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