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muriel_volestrangler

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5. "divided over the ordination of female priests" - this represented a convenient window

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Fri Oct 24, 2025, 05:32 AM

16 hrs ago

Sarah Mullally has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, but the official "installation" is not until March 2026. That leaves the Archbishop of York as the current most senior CofE cleric, so he could jointly take the service without conservatives complaining that the Pope worked with a woman.

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