The Latest Breaking News from Justin Welby

Before being ordained in 1992, Mr Welby had an 11-year career in the oil industry.

The head of the Church of England, spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, is under pressure to resign after an investigation found he failed to inform police about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps as soon as he became aware of it

Archbishop of Canterbury has ‘lost confidence of his clergy’ over scandal, vicar warns

Calls for the Archbishop of Canterbury to resign were growing on Tuesday

Justin Welby said he has given a lot of thought to resignation but that he will not step down.

Helen-Ann Hartley says archbishop’s position is untenable after members of Church of England’s ruling body launch petition

An independent review has found the Church of England covered up “horrific’ abuse by a lawyer who volunteered at Christian summer camps in the 1970s and 1980s

An independent review has concluded John Smyth QC’s abuse was covered up the Church of England.

Report says it is ‘unlikely’ Justin Welby knew nothing of concerns about Smyth, who abused schoolboys at Christian holiday camps

Dean of Canterbury Cathedral for two decades whose cats became celebrities on YouTube during his Covid prayer talks

Responses by the Church of England and others were ‘wholly ineffective and amounted to a cover-up’, a review found.