A new archbishop will not only need to lead the British church but play a significant role in the Anglican Communion.

Home to nearly a fifth of the Church's followers, or 272 million people, Africa is becoming increasingly important in the ...

The Primate of the Anglican Church since 2013, Archbishop Justin Welby, announced his resignation in November 2024, after a report denouncing his silence over a large-scale sexual scandal. In a recent ...

In his first interview since resigning, the former Archbishop of Canterbury tells Laura Kuenssberg about his failures on the John Smyth case.

Africa alone has almost twice as many Anglicans as England ... That brings us to safeguarding. Any candidate for archbishop of Canterbury will come under intense scrutiny over their record on ...

The former head of the world's Anglicans, Justin Welby, on Saturday admitted errors over an abuse scandal that rocked the Church of England and forced him to resign last year.

The former Archbishop told the BBC he failed to follow ... across five decades in three different countries in the UK and Africa. The review found Smyth might have been brought to justice had ...