Archbishop of Canterbury

The other 14 members of the Crown Nominations Commission were chosen by March, and the group is set to hold its first meeting in May.

What will be necessary now for the Anglican Communion to survive as a fellowship, at once expansive and capable of expressing what is normative?

The Nairobi-Cairo Proposals have a specific purpose, but Ephraim Radner discerns that they are built on a sweeping vision of the church that has beauty and persuasiveness.

The Nairobi-Cairo Proposals represent the fifth significant attempt to address challenges in the Anglican Communion, attempts which span decades.

Bishop Graham Kings continues his essay from yesterday on the succession at Canterbury, considering the lead candidates and the selection process.

Bishop Graham Kings continues our series on Canterbury and proposals for the future of the Communion with a two-part essay on recent archbishops.

During his time filling the primatial role, the Archbishop of York says he will focus on safeguarding, the Living in Love and Faith process, and teaching about the Lord's Prayer.

Seemingly within moments of Justin Welby resigning, many articles began identifying potential successors. Two names are common to almost all the lists, and so I shall start with them.

Noting that “heads had to roll” in response to the Church of England’s safeguarding problems, he compared himself to a predecessor, whose head rolled down Tower Hill after being struck off during the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381.

IASCUFO’s Nairobi-Cairo Proposals suggest a “narrow revision” of the 1930 Lambeth Conference’s classic description of the Communion that decenters the phrase “in communion with the See of Canterbury,” as well as a term-limited, rotating presidency for the Anglican Consultative Council.