{"id":144179,"date":"2026-03-26T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144179"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:35:04","slug":"a-church-times-article-on-archbishop-mullally-being-installed-in-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144179","title":{"rendered":"A Church Times article on Archbishop Mullally being installed in Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Six months after the announcement in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/canterbury-cathedral\">Canterbury Cathedral<\/a>\u00a0that the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, had been nominated as the 106th\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/archbishop-of-canterbury\">Archbishop of Canterbury<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/10-october\/news\/uk\/first-woman-appointed-to-be-the-next-archbishop-of-canterbury\">News, 10 October 2025<\/a>), the new Primate returned to the city to be installed in her new cathedral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although her election was confirmed in January (<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\">News, 30 January<\/a>), the enthronement on Wednesday marks the symbolic start of her public ministry. She makes history as the first woman to hold the position in 1400 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Archbishop had arrived on foot in Canterbury as a pilgrim on Sunday, six days after setting out from St Paul\u2019s Cathedral with her husband, Eamonn, and a small party of supporters. On Sunday, about 100 people joined her on the outskirts of the city for the last part of the journey to her cathedral, where she was greeted by the Mayor, the Dean, and the Bishop of Dover. Dressed informally in walking clothes and boots, she pronounced herself \u201crelieved\u201d to have completed the 87-mile journey, telling the BBC: \u201cIt\u2019s been a real joy. It\u2019s also a joy to know that we\u2019re done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The service on Wednesday \u2014 attended by more than 2000 people \u2014 was an altogether more formal occasion, full of pomp and pageantry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2026\/27-march\/news\/uk\/joy-pomp-and-pageantry-as-archbishop-mullally-is-installed-in-canterbury\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dame Sarah Mullally is to be installed as the first ever female leader of the Church of England at Canterbury Cathedral.<br> <br>More here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lys2LnMGBY\">https:\/\/t.co\/Lys2LnMGBY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LhEOtve4KJ\">pic.twitter.com\/LhEOtve4KJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BBC Kent (@BBCRadioKent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCRadioKent\/status\/2036702560401215790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six months after the announcement in\u00a0Canterbury Cathedral\u00a0that the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, had been nominated as the 106th\u00a0Archbishop of Canterbury\u00a0(News, 10 October 2025), the new Primate returned to the city to be installed in her new<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144179\">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":[67,324,694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england","category-sarah-mullaly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144179","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=144179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144183,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144179\/revisions\/144183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}