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The King will become the first British monarch to pray at a public service with the Pope since the Reformation

Charles, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and Pope Leo XIV will pray together during an ecumenical service in the Sistine Chapel.

In December 2023 the first same-sex partnerships received blessings as part of wider services.

Canterbury Cathedral's 'Hear Us' exhibit questions God in graffiti style, drawing online fury from JD Vance and Elon Musk

Bruised by recent events, the Church of England has just entered a new era. Dame Sarah Mullally’s appointment as the first female archbishop of Canterbury is momentous. But Mullally has an enormous challenge ahead of her in healing the wounds that afflict her church. Restoring trust in the church’s senior…

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Letters: Keith Griffin hopes Sarah Mullally can settle the church’s tangles over gender, sexuality and race, while Andrew Groves calls out misogyny. Plus letters by Mark Ynys-Mon, Rev Dr Nicholas Bradbury and Julian Sharpe

“We're still measuring women by who they're married to and whether they're mothers, not by what they've achieved.”

As an academic specialising in gender and the church, the news that Bishop Sarah Mullally would be the next archbishop of Canterbury came as a pleasant shock to me. The announcement of a woman as leader of the Church of England and the “first among equals” in the worldwide Anglican…

Editorial: The appointment of Dame Sarah Mullally is a historic moment for the Anglican church, and a cause for wider celebration

Sarah Mullally is known to be wise, intelligent, courageous and compassionate. That should serve her well in the battles ahead, says vicar Martine Oborne