00:00After 1,400 years with male leaders, a woman is now the Archbishop of Canterbury.
00:07The Bishop of London, the Right Reverend and Most Honourable Dame Sarah Mullally.
00:15The head of the Church of England, a former chief nurse, is likely to face more challenges than her male predecessors because she is a woman.
00:25I intend to be a shepherd who enables everyone's ministry and vocation to flourish, whatever the tradition.
00:35Whatever the tradition, including the more conservative branches of Anglicans, like here in Nigeria, where some believe that women should never head the Church.
00:47A situation where we are electing women to become primaries is very dangerous. It's very dangerous. It's not scriptural. It's man-made.
00:57And let the white West world don't feel that they know more than God.
01:03Others in the same conservative circles believe that gender is not the issue, but what they see as liberal ideology, like blessing same-sex couples, which Sarah Mullally has done.
01:17Others yet welcome the new leader with enthusiasm.
01:21So I think it's a very wonderful thing.
01:22And it's also a way that God will prove to our generation that what he has been using men to do, he can also use women to do it.
01:29Sarah Mullally, hailed for her immense competence, has called for unity.
01:36Reacting to the killing in a synagogue of Manchester on Thursday, she said that hatred and racism of any kind cannot be allowed to tear us apart.
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