Justin Welby is spending his final day as Archbishop of Canterbury, as he prepares to step down over failures in handling a Church of England abuse scandal. Almost two months after announcing his ...

The process to replace Mr Welby is expected to take months, with an announcement about a new archbishop of Canterbury possible in autumn. Justin Welby ceases to hold the leading role within the ...

Dr Welby will officially quit the role at midnight on Monday almost two months after announcing his resignation after a damning report exposed a “conspiracy of silence” around the abuse.

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury's resignation amid a sex abuse scandal has led to widespread speculations about who would be the next archbishop — the spiritual leader of 85 million ...

Justin Welby is spending his final day as Archbishop of Canterbury, as he prepares to step down over failures in handling a Church of England abuse scandal. Almost two months after announcing his ...

LONDON (AP) — Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby ’s tenure officially ends Monday, two months after he resigned following an inquiry that found he failed to tell police about serial abuse ...

Justin Welby will formally give up the position on ... but there is a fear of conflating criticism of the Jewish state with being antisemitic. There is no place for antisemitism, but neither ...

Dr Welby says he is “deeply sorry that this abuse happened”, that he “had no idea or suspicion of this abuse before 2013” and acknowledges he had “personally failed to ensure that after ...

The Bishop of Dover has said she "did not want" former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby "to have resigned" and has confirmed she is not a contender to replace him. Mr Welby stepped down in ...

She said: “The Church now has a new leader whose record on safeguarding has also been called into question, like Justin Welby’s was.” Ms Duckworth said nothing less than complete reform of ...

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