LONDON (RNS) — When The Rt. Rev. Dame Sarah Mullally is installed as the 106th archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday (March 25), she will become the first woman ever to lead the Church of England and serve as convener of the Anglican Communion. She is a former chief nurse of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, making Mullally also the first archbishop of Canterbury to have led a major public agency in the country.
In the congregation at Canterbury Cathedral in Kent on Wednesday, along with royals, politicians, clergy from around the world and schoolchildren, will be representatives from the NHS, testifying to Mullally’s accomplishments before she was ordained in 2002.
In another first, at least in recent memory, she took part in a pilgrimage, walking the 87 miles from St. Paul’s Cathedral in her London diocese, where she has been bishop since 2018, to Canterbury.
You can watch her installation at Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, in southwest England, on the website of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop’s YouTube page, beginning at about 10:30 a.m. Eastern time in the United States, 7:30 a.m. Pacific.
And below, read Religion News Service’s recent coverage of Mullally’s appointment to the highest office in the Anglican Communion.
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