BBC News: Dame Sarah Mullally has been named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury designate – the first woman to be chosen for the role.
A former NHS chief nurse, the 63-year-old became a priest in 2006 and was appointed as the first female Bishop of London in 2018 – the third most senior member of clergy in the Church of England.
It is the first time in nearly 500 years of history that the Church nominated a woman to lead it.
The Church has been without someone in the top job for almost a year after Justin Welby resigned over a safeguarding scandal.
He stepped down after a damning report into a prolific child abuser associated with the Church.
It found that he “could and should” have reported John Smyth’s abuse of boys and young men to police in 2013.
Women were first ordained priests in the Church in 1994, while the first female bishop appointments followed 20 years later in 2014.