{"id":142915,"date":"2026-01-29T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142915"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:56:52","slug":"church-times-election-of-first-female-archbishop-of-canterbury-confirmed-at-st-pauls-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142915","title":{"rendered":"(Church times) Election of first female Archbishop of Canterbury confirmed at St Paul\u2019s Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Most Revd Sarah Elisabeth Mullally became the first woman to take office as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/archbishop-of-canterbury\">Archbishop of Canterbury<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday, at the confirmation in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/st-paul-s-cathedral\">St Paul\u2019s Cathedral<\/a>\u00a0of her election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is our&nbsp;<em>habemus mamam<\/em>&nbsp;moment,\u201d the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-dover\">Bishop of Dover<\/a>, the Rt Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, told the congregation, her declaration a play on the words used to announce that a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/pope-leo-xiv\">pope<\/a>&nbsp;has been elected, as the congregation began to applaud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the charge to the new Primate of All England, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/archbishop-of-york\">Archbishop of York<\/a>&nbsp;suggested that \u201cwhile the world may be very interested in the fact that you are the first female Archbishop of Canterbury, I think God is very interested in the fact that this is the first time Sarah has been the Archbishop of Canterbury.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Archbishop Cottrell\u2019s advice to her was to be herself: \u201cContinue to be the person who exercises the gifts, wisdom, and experience that your life has given you; and continue to be the one whose life is shaped and nurtured by the gospel of Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2026\/30-january\/news\/uk\/election-of-first-female-archbishop-of-canterbury-confirmed-at-st-paul-s-cathedral\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Election of first female <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ArchbishopofCanterbury?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ArchbishopofCanterbury<\/a> confirmed at St Paul\u2019s Cathedral<br><br>\u2018Continue to be the person who exercises the gifts, wisdom, and experience that your life has given you,\u2019 Archbishop of York tells the Most Revd Sarah <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mullally?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mullally<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tykp53tKDn\">https:\/\/t.co\/Tykp53tKDn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/2016565270630858868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Revd Sarah Elisabeth Mullally became the first woman to take office as\u00a0Archbishop of Canterbury\u00a0on Wednesday, at the confirmation in\u00a0St Paul\u2019s Cathedral\u00a0of her election. \u201cThis is our&nbsp;habemus mamam&nbsp;moment,\u201d the&nbsp;Bishop of Dover, the Rt Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, told the congregation,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142915\">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":[67,389,635,694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-sarah-mullaly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142915","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=142915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142920,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142915\/revisions\/142920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}