Justin Welby
Justin Welby
Justin Portal Welbyis 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth6 January 1956
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I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.
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Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England.
I happen to know a bit about banking.
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It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationships, including civil partnerships.
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The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.
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A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.
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Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
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I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.
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The Church of England holds very firmly, and continues to hold to the view, that marriage is a lifelong union of one man to one woman. At the same time, at the heart of our understanding of what it is to be human is the essential dignity of the human being.
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A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if theyve had a competitive relationship with their own father.
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I am not particularly well-behaved.
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Turning God into some kind of celestial insurance policy is just mental.
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The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.
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You see gay relationships that are just stunning in the quality of the relationship.