She was speaking in Canterbury Cathedral, where a service of installation is due to take place in March 2026. Her formal election by the Dean and Chapter, which is yet to come, will be confirmed in St Paul’s Cathedral on 28 January. A former Chief Nursing Officer for England, Bishop Mullally said that “washing feet has shaped my Christian vocation: as a nurse, then a priest, then a bishop. When she was Bishop of Crediton, Bishop Mullally played a part in implementing safeguarding reforms (News, 8 April 2016). In her address on Friday morning, she said that, while safeguarding was “everyone’s business”, senior leaders bore an “added weight of accountability”.