Archbishop Of Canterbury Justin Welby Resigns 

THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is to step down amid intense pressure over his handling of one of the church’s worst abuse scandals, he announced yesterday

The decision came after mounting demands from victims and members of the clergy for Welby to quit.

Pressure on him had been intensifying since the publication last week of a damning report on the Church of England’s cover-up of abuse by John Smyth in the UK in the late 1970s and early 80s, and later in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

About 130 boys are believed to have been victims of Smyth, a powerful barrister who died in 2018.

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