Mary Kenny
Bishop Sarah Mullally of London appointed as
the Anglican Church’s new archbishop of Canterbury,
the fi rst woman to hold the role in its 1,400-year history.
Photo: OSV News /Toby Melville, Reuters.
If Dame Sarah Mullally, the newly-appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, has an Irish surname, it’s because she is married to an Irishman, architect Eamonn Mullally (they have two children, Liam and Grace.) Her appointment as the first woman to lead the Anglican Communion world-wide has been greeted as historic; yet the reaction has been ambivalent, sometimes…
