Justin Welby
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Justin Welby (born 1956) was appointed in 2012 as Archbishop of Canterbury.
He was educated at Eton College and the University of Cambridge and worked in the oil industry before being ordained. He became Dean of Liverpool in 2007 and Bishop of Durham in 2011. He is on the Evangelical wing of the the Church of England.
According to The Daily Telegraph, Welby supports "the Church of England's opposition to same-sex marriage", although he stated that he is "always averse to the language of exclusion, when what we are called to is to love in the same way as Jesus Christ loves us."[1]
References
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9666371/New-Archbishop-Justin-Welby-pledges-re-think-on-gay-relationships.html John Bingham, "New Archbishop Justin Welby pledges re-think on gay relationships" Daily Telegraph, 9 November 2012
