The Protest Against an Archbishop of Canterbury that calls the future of the Church into Question.

Counting Archbishops and Counting AuthorityThe Church of England claims that Sarah Mullally is the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury. In fact, the difference between these two ways of counting exposes the deepest structural and spiritual weakness of the Church of England. The Church of England numbers its archbishops from Augustine, sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 597, yet it formally repudiated papal authority at the Reformation. There were therefore only sixty-nine Archbishops of Canterbury in communion with Rome, ending with Cardinal Reginald Pole. Bishops became managers rather than successors to the apostles, since the succession had been both broken and repudiated.