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Archbishop Welby Resigns
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has resigned on Tuesday, days after a damning report into a prolific child abuser associated with the Church of England.
Justin Welby was ordained in 1992 after an 11-year career in the oil industry. He is a member of the congregation of “HTB Queens Gate”, west London. Welby was announced as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury in late 2012. Last year he coronated King Charles who now had to be the first to be informed of the Archbishop’s resignation.
In his resignation statement (below) Justin Welby says the “Makin report” “exposed the long-maintained conspiracy of silence about the heinous abuses of John Smyth”, a barrister who ran Christian summer camps and committed physical, psychological and sexual abuse against more than 100 boys and young men.
Welby says when he was told in 2013 that police had been notified about the case, “I believed wrongly that an appropriate resolution would follow”. Welby, then only a few months into his role as archbishop, had been informed of victims coming forward to the church and had been told by people around him that a formal referral to the police had been made, but that turned out not to be true.
The “Makin report” found that Welby was ill advised by those around him, but that he had shown a “distinct lack of curiosity” in seeking to reassure himself that actions were being taken to investigate, and given his past connections with Smyth he “held a personal and moral responsibility to pursue this further” and ensure the case was properly investigated.
This caused serious delays in the investigation, and Smyth was not brought to justice before his death in South Africa in 2018.
This is the Archbishop’s resignation statement of November 12th:
Having sought the gracious permission of His Majesty The King, I have decided to resign as Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Makin Review has exposed the long-maintained conspiracy of silence about the heinous abuses of John Smyth.
When I was informed in 2013 and told that police had been notified, I believed wrongly that an appropriate resolution would follow.
It is very clear that I must take personal and institutional responsibility for the long and retraumatising period between 2013 and 2024.
It is my duty to honour my Constitutional and church responsibilities, so exact timings will be decided once a review of necessary obligations has been completed, including those in England and in the Anglican Communion.
I hope this decision makes clear how seriously the Church of England understands the need for change and our profound commitment to creating a safer church. As I step down I do so in sorrow with all victims and survivors of abuse.
The last few days have renewed my long felt and profound sense of shame at the historic safeguarding failures of the Church of England. For nearly twelve years I have struggled to introduce improvements. It is for others to judge what has been done.
In the meantime, I will follow through on my commitment to meet victims. I will delegate all my other current responsibilities for safeguarding until the necessary risk assessment process is complete.
I ask everyone to keep my wife Caroline and my children in their prayers. They have been my most important support throughout my ministry, and I am eternally grateful for their sacrifice. Caroline led the spouses’ programme during the Lambeth Conference and has travelled tirelessly in areas of conflict supporting the most vulnerable, the women, and those who care for them locally.
I believe that stepping aside is in the best interests of the Church of England, which I dearly love and which I have been honoured to serve. I pray that this decision points us back towards the love that Jesus Christ has for every one of us.
For above all else, my deepest commitment is to the person of Jesus Christ, my saviour and my God; the bearer of the sins and burdens of the world, and the hope of every person.
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