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Jane Clinton

Immigration debate ‘dividing us’, incoming archbishop of Canterbury warns in Christmas sermon

Dame Sarah Mullally will legally become archbishop of Canterbury on 28 January.
Dame Sarah Mullally will legally become archbishop of Canterbury on 28 January. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

The incoming archbishop of Canterbury has warned in her Christmas Day sermon that “our national conversations about immigration continue to divide us, when our common humanity should unite us”.

Acting in her current role as the bishop of London, Dame Sarah Mullally told St Paul’s Cathedral: “Joy is born exactly where despair expects to triumph. As joy breaks through in our lives it gives us the opportunity to become people who make room.

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