The formidable task now for Dame Sarah will be to provide the leadership to make it happen. But it is in the public square that Dame Sarah may face the defining test of her period in office. Though some bishops, including the Rt Rev Arun Arora, spoke out against a distortion of Christian values, there has been a notable lack of coherent direction from the top. For her part, Dame Sarah has suggested that in a divided society “people are frightened for lots of reasons, and often that then presents in ways that, for other people, may feel threatening”. As the first woman to become the spiritual leader of the Anglican communion, Dame Sarah embodies a message of diversity and inclusion to be celebrated.