MEDIA NEWS
ARCH FOES
THERE was no white smoke above Lambeth Palace, no cheering crowds, no balcony appearance, and no shout of “
Habemus archiepiscopus
!”
Instead, there was a walk up the aisle of Canterbury Cathedral to polite clapping from a carefully selected audience of fewer than a hundred people. With that, the Church of England had appointed its first woman archbishop in more than 1400 years.