Archbishop Mullally’s address signaled leadership focused on stability and consensual leadership, while LLF’s end ensured more years of culture war over sexuality.
Archbishop Stephen Cottrell: “After having very carefully reviewed the matter, I have determined that no further action will be taken in respect of this complaint.”
The church’s trustee body passed a motion of no confidence in the archbishop’s leadership amid reports of safeguarding failures, weak financial controls, alcohol abuse, and promiscuity at Bangor Cathedral.
The Archbishop of York survived a vote of no confidence, and synod members backed a compromise that places the church’s national safeguarding team under independent oversight while leaving diocesan safeguarding in bishops’ hands.
A Panel of Inquiry faulted the church’s failure to pass on allegations about the serial abuser to an evangelical congregation he joined in 2014, and said that failures in implementing its safeguarding system leaves congregants at risk.
The Rt. Rev. Bev Mason of Warrington, who served with Perumbalath as the Diocese of Liverpool’s only suffragan, has revealed that she was the bishop who complained of sexual harassment.
