Justin Welby
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The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby |
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| Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of All England |
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Welby in 2015
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| Church | Church of England |
| Province | Province of Canterbury |
| Diocese |
Diocese of Canterbury (delegated to the Bishop of Dover) |
| Elected | 4 February 2013 |
| Installed | 21 March 2013 |
| Predecessor | Rowan Williams |
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| Ordination | 1992 (deacon) 1993 (priest) |
| Consecration | 28 October 2011 by John Sentamu |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Justin Portal Welby |
| Born |
6 January 1956 London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Residence |
Lambeth Palace, London The Old Palace, Canterbury |
| Spouse | Caroline (née Eaton) |
| Children | 6 (one deceased) |
| Previous post | Bishop of Durham (2011–2013) |
| Education |
St Peter's School, Seaford Eton College |
| Alma mater |
Trinity College, Cambridge St John's College, Durham |
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| Ordination history of Justin Welby | |
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Diaconal ordination
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| Date of ordination | 1992 |
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Priestly ordination
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| Date of ordination | 1993 |
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Episcopal consecration
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| Date of consecration | 28 October 2011 |
Justin Portal Welby (born 6 January 1956) is the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury and the most senior bishop in the Church of England. Welby was the vicar of Southam, Warwickshire, and most recently was the Bishop of Durham, serving for just over a year. As Archbishop of Canterbury he is the Primate of All England and the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Welby's early career was in the oil industry. In 1989, he studied for ordination at St John's College, Durham. After several parochial appointments he became the Dean of Liverpool in 2007 and the Bishop of Durham in 2011.
Welby's theology is reported as representing the evangelical tradition within Anglicanism. Having worked in business before his ordination, some of his publications explore the relationship between finance and religion and, as a member of the House of Lords, he sits on the panel of the 2012 Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards.
Justin Portal Welby was born in London, England on 6 January 1956, almost exactly nine months after the marriage of his mother Jane Gillian Portal (born 1929) to Gavin Bramhall James Welby (1910–1977). Jane had served as a personal secretary to Sir Winston Churchill from December 1949 until her marriage to Gavin Welby in April 1955, very shortly after she had a short relationship with the private secretary to Churchill, Sir Anthony Montague Browne (1923–2013).
Gavin Welby, born Bernard Gavin Weiler in Ruislip, West London, was the son of Bernard Weiler, a German-Jewish immigrant and importer of luxury items who had changed the family name to Welby shortly after the First World War broke out. Welby describes his early childhood as "messy": Gavin and Jane Welby were both alcoholics. They divorced in 1959, when he was three years old, and he was placed in Gavin Welby's custody. In 1960 Gavin Welby was engaged to the actress Vanessa Redgrave, who called the engagement off after her mother Lady Redgrave wrote to her father, Sir Michael Redgrave, that Gavin Welby was "a real horror ... a pretty rotten piece of work". Gavin Welby died in 1977 of alcohol-related causes.
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