{"id":141849,"date":"2025-12-12T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141849"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:19:00","slug":"church-times-complaint-against-bishop-of-london-not-properly-dealt-with-lambeth-palace-admits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141849","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Complaint against Bishop of London not properly dealt with, Lambeth Palace admits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A complaint against the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-london\">Bishop of London<\/a>, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, was \u201cnot taken forward or appropriately followed up\u201d, Lambeth Palace said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The claim related to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/diocese-of-london\">diocese of London\u2019<\/a>s and Bishop Mullally\u2019s handling of an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/adult-abuse\">abuse<\/a>&nbsp;allegation, Premier Christian News&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/premierchristian.news\/en\/news\/article\/abuse-survivor-and-former-staff-member-say-church-treatment-pushed-them-to-the-brink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported on Monday<\/a>. The complainant, referred to as Survivor N, filed the complaint in March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/news\/news-and-statements\/lambeth-palace-and-bishop-london-statements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The statement<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/lambeth-palace\">Lambeth Palace<\/a>&nbsp;said that, \u201cdue to administrative errors and an incorrect assumption about the individual\u2019s wishes, the complaint was not taken forward or appropriately followed up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bishop Mullally, who is now the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/archbishop-of-canterbury\">Archbishop-elect of Canterbury<\/a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/10-october\/news\/uk\/first-woman-appointed-to-be-the-next-archbishop-of-canterbury\">News, 3 October<\/a>), said in a separate statement that Survivor N had been \u201clet down by the processes of the Church of England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile his abuse allegations against a member of clergy were fully dealt with by the Diocese of London, it is clear that a different complaint he subsequently made against me personally in 2020 was not properly dealt with.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/12-december\/news\/uk\/complaint-against-bishop-mullally-not-properly-dealt-with-lambeth-palace-admits\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A complaint against the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, was \u201cnot taken forward or appropriately followed up\u201d, Lambeth Palace said in a statement on Thursday<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/churchnews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#churchnews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/churchtimes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#churchtimes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1i96m3OSl7\">https:\/\/t.co\/1i96m3OSl7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1999107311114002738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A complaint against the\u00a0Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, was \u201cnot taken forward or appropriately followed up\u201d, Lambeth Palace said in a statement on Thursday. The claim related to the&nbsp;diocese of London\u2019s and Bishop Mullally\u2019s handling of an&nbsp;abuse&nbsp;allegation,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141849\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,389,635,168,435,184,177,694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-sarah-mullaly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141852,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141849\/revisions\/141852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}