A woman has been named to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury for the first time in the history of the Church of England. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Friday that King Charles had ...

LONDON (AP) — Bishop of London Sarah Mullally was announced Friday as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time in 1,400 years that a woman has been chosen as the spiritual leader of the ...

Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Anglican Communion, resigned on Tuesday over his handling of a high-profile abuse case. A position with deep Catholic roots, the archbishop ...

LONDON — Three centuries ago, an enslaved person in Virginia wrote to a leader of the Church of England, begging to be released from “this cruel bondage.” There was no reply from the church, which at ...