Watch: First Female Archbishop of Canterbury Heckled at St Paul’s Cathedral Confirmation

The Anglican church has consecrated its first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1,400-year history of the role, but the ceremony was interrupted by a dissenting priest who has claimed she was complicit in alleged safeguarding failures that led to the suicide of a London priest in 2020.

The former chief nurse of England, Suffragan Bishop of Crediton, and Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally was confirmed as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury at St Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday. The “theological liberal” is now the senior bishop and “spiritual leader” of the worldwide Anglican Communion, one of the world’s largest, including the Church of England, the Episcopal Church in the United States, and many others in 165 nations.

This general view shows Sarah Mullally