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Well, we've just had that announcement.
It's come from Downing Street. And for
the first time in nearly 500 years of
history, the Church of England has
nominated a woman to lead it. Dame Sarah
Malali, the bishop of London. She's been
in that position already uh breaking uh
glass ceilings through her career. Uh
she's been the bishop of London since
2017. The first woman to take up that
role, the third most senior member of
clergy in the Church of England and she
will now in an enthronement ceremony
sometime in the new year will become the
new Archbishop of Canterbury. As you
rightly said, it's the first time that
women were were considered for this
role. It was only under the tenure of
the previous Archbishop of Canterbury,
Justin Welby, that women were allowed to
be bishops at all. And so it is in a
very short space of time. We've had
since the 1990s the first time when
priests uh female priests were allowed
in the Church of England. We then had
just 10 years ago the first female
bishops. Well, now we have uh the first
uh female Archbishop of Canterbury.
>> And uh Alem, she takes over at a
challenging time for the church. What
could she bring to the role?
Well, she was before she joined the
church an administrator in the NHS. She
was the youngest ever chief nursing uh
officer in uh for England in uh 1999.
And as bishop of London, she's seen as
someone who's brought uh
professionalism. She's modernized the
dasis and it's hoped that that she'll
bring that to the church as well. she
does have huge issu uh challenges ahead
of her. Primarily uh I think one of the
most urgent issues to deal with is
charting a new course in terms of the
way the church deals with safeguarding
with abuse with uh with uh treating with
compassion those who've suffered abuse.
Uh then there is the the issue of
falling numbers of people going to
church services though London the dasis
in which she's been in charge is one of
those that's uh seemed to buck the trend
somewhat in that regard and also there
are big uh theological divisions if you
like within the church particularly over
issues around for example blessings for
samesex unions. huge challenges within
the church and of course she'll be drawn
on commenting on some of the issues and
challenges there are across the country
and indeed on global issues as well
>> on global issues and many will be
welcoming the fact that a woman has
taken on this position but there'll be
some who don't believe a woman should be
head of the um of the church
>> that's right I mean quite early on in
her church career she was someone who
was put in charge of uh uh looking at at
how to make reforms uh when it comes to
safeguarding and there are those who
think that perhaps a woman in charge of
that issue might help charter a better
course but you're right I mean in the
church of England now there are those uh
even senior members of clergy in the
church who are opposed uh not just to
women becoming bishops or leading the
church but women being ordained at all.
So certainly those uh there there are
those who who feel that flies against
the the theology that they believe in.
But she's managed to work with some of
those bishops in the past. And I don't
think uh necessarily that will be an
obstacle to her forging ahead.
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