“The new archbishop will be faced with declining church attendance, bloated management structures and clergy squabbling over what people do in the bedroom,” Andrew Graystone, an advocate for church abuse survivors, told Britain’s Press Association. The Anglican Communion has more than 85 million members spread across 165 countries, including the Episcopal Church in the United States. While each national church has its own leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury is considered first among equals. That would be a major milestone for a church that ordained its first female priests in 1994 and its first female bishop in 2015. “And if you can have a female prime minister, you have a female monarch … why can’t you have the female archbishop of Canterbury?” Gross asked.