Dame Sarah Mullally is the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury and the first woman to hold the post. She was enthroned on March 25th 2026, picking up the crozier and sitting on two of Canterbury Cathedral's thrones in a ceremony marking the symbolic beginning of her tenure.
Before her enthronement, she undertook a 140km pilgrimage along the "Becket Way" from London to Canterbury as a "profound act of spiritual preparation", though it was interrupted when she returned to the House of Lords on March 18th to speak against decriminalising abortion up to birth.
Dame Sarah inherits a Church of England under severe strain. Some of the Anglicans she now leads do not believe that the church can be led by a woman. She has said she is approaching the role's challenges in "listening mode".
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