Justin Welby

The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby GCVO
Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of All England
Official portrait, 2019
Church	Church of England
Province	Canterbury
Diocese	Canterbury
Elected	4 February 2013
Installed	21 March 2013
Predecessor	Rowan Williams
Other post(s)	Bishop of Durham (2011–2013)
Personal details
Born	Justin Portal Welby (1956-01-06) 6 January 1956 (age 68) London, England
Denomination	Church of England
Residence	Lambeth Palace, London The Old Palace, Canterbury
Parents	Anthony Montague Browne Jane Williams
Spouse	Caroline Eaton
Children	6[1]
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge (MA) St John's College, Durham (BA, DipMin)
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Spiritual
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 February 2013
Ordination history
History Diaconal ordination Ordained by Simon Barrington-Ward Date 28 June 1992 Place Coventry Cathedral Priestly ordination Ordained by Simon Barrington-Ward Date 27 June 1993 Place Coventry Cathedral Episcopal consecration Consecrated by John Sentamu Date 28 October 2011 Place York Minster

Justin Portal Welby GCVO (born 6 January 1956) is a British Anglican bishop who, since 2013, has been the 105th archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England. Welby was previously the vicar of Southam in Warwickshire,^[2] and later served as Dean of Liverpool and Bishop of Durham.^[3] As Archbishop of Canterbury he is the Primate of All England and the symbolic head primus inter pares of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

Welby was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read history and law. Later in life, he studied for ordination at St John's College, Durham. After several parochial appointments, he became Dean of Liverpool in 2007 and Bishop of Durham in 2011, serving in the latter role for just over a year.

Welby's theology is seen as representing the "open evangelical" tradition within Anglicanism.^[4] He worked in business before his ordination, and some of his publications explore the relationship between finance and religion; as a member of the House of Lords, he sat on the panel of the 2012 Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards.