{"id":191361,"date":"2025-10-03T14:28:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=191361"},"modified":"2025-10-03T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:58:48","slug":"church-of-england-to-have-its-1st-female-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/191361\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of England to have its 1st female leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sarah Mullally was appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury on Friday, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England in the 1,400-year history of the role, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Mullally, 63, also becomes the ceremonial head of some 85 million Anglicans worldwide.<\/p>\n

GAFCON, a grouping of conservative Anglican churches across Africa and Asia, immediately criticised Mullally’s appointment, saying it showed that the English arm of the Church had “relinquished its authority to lead”.<\/p>\n

Mullally, who has served as Bishop of London since 2018, has previously championed several liberal causes within the Church, including allowing blessings for same-sex couples in civil partnerships and marriages.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Mullally was appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury on Friday, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England in the 1,400-year history of the role, Euronews writes. Mullally, 63, also becomes the ceremonial head of some 85 million Anglicans worldwide. GAFCON, a grouping of conservative Anglican churches across Africa and Asia, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":191346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191363,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191361\/revisions\/191363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}