Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, Tuesday , announced his resignation after facing pressure to quit over his handling of an abuse case.
Welby in a statement , said he was “stepping aside in the best interests of the Church of England”.
A review into the case had “exposed the long-maintained conspiracy of silence about the heinous abuses of John Smyth,” he wrote.“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 traumatizing period between 2013 and 2024.”
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Demands for Welby’s resignation had been growing in recent days, with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying abuse victims had been “failed very, very badly”.