Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has resigned 'in sorrow,' saying he had failed to ensure there was a proper investigation into allegations of abuse.
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has resigned "in sorrow," saying he had failed to ensure there was a proper investigation into allegations of abuse.
Welby, the senior bishop of the Church of England and spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide, had faced calls to resign after a report last week found he had taken insufficient action to stop a person it described as arguably the Church's most prolific serial abuser. Welby's tenure covered a decade of major upheaval in which he was forced to navigate rows over homosexual rights and women clerics between liberal churches, mostly in North America and Britain, and their conservative counterparts, especially in Africa.
The report said John Smyth, a British lawyer, had subjected more than 100 boys and young men to "brutal and horrific" physical and sexual abuse over a 40-year period. Smyth moved to Africa in 1984 and continued to carry out the abuse until close to his death in 2018, the report said.
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