Was he right to go? Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby stood down from his post yesterday after an explosive review found the Church of England covered up decades of child abuse.
Archbishop resigns over abuse scandal
Regrets: “The last few days have renewed my long felt and profound sense of shame at the historic safeguarding failures of the Church of England. For nearly twelve years I have struggled to introduce improvements,” said the Archbishop yesterday. Glossary
Archbishop of Canterbury - Although the head of the Church of England is the Queen, the Archbishop is the most senior bishop and symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican communion.
Justin Welby - The Archbishop of Canterbury from 2013 to 2024.
Executives - People who are senior managers in a business.
Church of England - The main or official church in England, also known as the Anglican Church. The supreme head of the church is the monarch.
Evangelical - A kind of Christianity that stresses the experience of being “born again” when one accepts Christ.
Ordination - A religious ceremony in which someone is made a priest, minister or rabbi.
Cerebral - Of or relating to the brain or the intellect.
Rowan Williams - The former Archbishop of Canterbury.
Theology - The study of religious beliefs.
Anglo-Catholicism - A movement that emphasises the Catholic history of the Anglican Church/Church of England — rather than the Protestant history.
Catholicism - A religious denomination within Christianity, with 1.2 billion believers worldwide.