{"id":30034,"date":"2026-01-28T13:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=30034"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:58:58","slug":"berkshire-vicar-delivers-charge-for-new-archbishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=30034","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire vicar delivers charge for new Archbishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Bishop Sarah Mullally became&nbsp;the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury in a ceremony at St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop of Oxford and the Bishop of Reading were both in attendance, while Revd Mark Nam, vicar of St John the Evangelist in Woodley, was one of the people tasked with delivering the charge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/s10ZdhuRFRx?e=2732fe43d4&amp;c2id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Speaking to BBC Radio Berkshire ahead of the event<\/a>, Bishop Mary said: \u201cAs a female bishop,&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;so important for me that the new Archbishop is also female \u2013 especially for younger women to see that these roles are&nbsp;opening up&nbsp;to women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will continue to be a matter of conversation across the Church and in the Anglican communion. But&nbsp;she\u2019s&nbsp;already leading brilliantly. She leads out of her humanity, shows&nbsp;vulnerability&nbsp;and shows a different face of the Church of England.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/TYGgFu5RjL7?e=2732fe43d4&amp;c2id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Bishop Sarah Mullally became&nbsp;the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury in a ceremony at St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral. The Bishop of Oxford and the Bishop of Reading were both in attendance, while Revd Mark Nam, vicar of St John the Evangelist in Woodley, was one of the people tasked with delivering the charge. Speaking to BBC Radio&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,372,6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-diocesan-news","category-events","category-news","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30036,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30034\/revisions\/30036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}