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You Anglicans can be a cheerless lot at times, you know. As of today there is a new Archbishop of Canterbury. Cheer up, and wish him well.
No, today, I think, in a ceremony in St Paul's.
I don't know anything about him. Is he conservative, liberal, middle of the road...?
He's voiced his beliefs that homosexuality in terms of its activity is contrary to Christian teaching, although he affirms that homosexuals are people and deserve the same dignity as any other person (basically what Lambeth 1.10 says)
He is definitely on the more conservative side. Mind you, women's ordination is not a solely "liberal" possession; many conservative clergy and laity are vocal supporters of women bishops in England.
According to the official ABC's website, his tenure officially began on the 1st. There are a lot of ceremonial dates still to come, and his public ministry, as I stated before, does not actually begin until his enthronement in a month and a half (March 21st), but his actual tenure as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and primus inter pares of all bishops and Primates of the Anglican Communion did begin on the 1st of February.
Of course, as others have said, it really doesn't matter, but I think the date given on the archbishop's home page is an error. The ceremony it refers to, conducted by the Archbishop of York, took place on the 4th. On the Diary page it says:
Confirmation of Election at St Paul's Cathedral
Monday 4th February 2013
A legal ceremony, the Confirmation of Election, will take place on 4th February 2013 at St Paul's Cathedral. At this point, the Bishop of Durham will become the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Yep.
Perhaps - it's a very complicated issue in the C of E as it is often a combination of churchmanship and viewpoint. There are a fair few liberal Anglo-Catholics and broach-church Anglicans uncomfortable with women's ordination - they'd bite your head off if you called them conservative!
Justin's somewhat conservative but a charismatic - many of whom have no problem with women's ordination.
I'm really excited about the future of the C of E, in particular, with ++Justin. And I think he's here at just the right time for the Anglican Communion as well.