Overview
- Mullally was installed Wednesday at Canterbury Cathedral before about 2,000 guests, including the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and senior delegates from the Vatican and other faiths.
- The service marked the start of her public ministry with her first sermon and blended tradition with new touches using the Saint John’s Bible for her oath and readings and prayers in Bemba, Spanish and Urdu.
- A former NHS chief nurse and later Bishop of London, she honored her nursing roots by fastening her cope with her old belt buckle after completing a six‑day, 87‑mile pilgrimage from London.
- She faces sharp tests on safeguarding and unity as survivors call for trauma‑informed reform and the conservative Gafcon network says it will not recognize her authority.
- The Archbishop of Canterbury serves as a symbolic and pastoral leader for autonomous Anglican churches that count roughly 85–100 million members worldwide, so her approach could influence how divided provinces cooperate.