It is very clear that I must take personal and institutional responsibility for the long and re-traumatizing period between 2013 and 2024,” said Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.

Church of England head Justin Welby has resigned after an investigation found that he failed to inform police about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps as soon as he became aware of it.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the most senior leader in the Church of England, has resigned over his handling of a child abuse case, according to his official account.

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The Church of England faced pressure on Wednesday to ensure people are held to account for systematically covering up allegations of abuse, one day after the Archbishop of Canterbury resigned over a church abuse scandal.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior Church of England bishop, spiritual leader of Anglicans, and a friend of King Charles III, resigned Tuesday over his handling of a sex abuse scandal. The Most Reverend Justin Welby had faced growing pressure to step down after the publication last week of a damning report on the cover-up by the church of a sadist who subjected private schoolboys attending evangelical Christian holiday camps in the 1970s and ’80s to horrendous physical,

It is very clear that I must take personal and institutional responsibility for the long and retraumatizing period between 2013 and 2024,” Welby said in the statement on Tuesday.

A report found Justin Welby took insufficient action into allegations against John Smyth, believed to be “the most prolific serial abuser” associated with the Church of England.

The only Church of England bishop to publicly demand the resignation of former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby says his departure wasn't enough to solve the church’s “profound failure" in safeguarding vulnerable people or ease the trauma suffered by

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, has stepped down following an investigation that concluded he failed to report serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps to authorities promptly upon learning of it.