{"id":501218,"date":"2026-03-29T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501218\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:26:08","slug":"pope-leo-to-meet-new-archbishop-of-canterbury-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501218\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo to meet new Archbishop of Canterbury in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Revd Dame Sarah Mullally will be received by the Pope during her visit to Rome from 25 to 28 April. The announcement comes two days after her official installation as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p>Vatican News\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2026-03\/pope-leo-xiv-message-sarah-mullally-archb-canterbury.html\" title=\"Pope assures Archbishop of Canterbury of dialogue &#039;in truth and love\u2018 \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/content\/dam\/vaticannews\/multimedia\/2026\/marzo\/26\/16.jpg\/_jcr_content\/renditions\/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.500.281.jpeg\" alt=\"Pope assures Archbishop of Canterbury of dialogue 'in truth and love\u2018 \"\/><\/p>\n<p>      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n      Pope Leo XIV sends a message to Archbishop Sarah Mullally on the occasion of her installation, recalling the progress and challenges in Catholic\u2013Anglican relations. The &#8230;\n     <\/p>\n<p>The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, will meet Pope Leo XIV during her visit to Rome, scheduled from 25 to 28 April. The official announcement of the visit comes two days after her official installation in Canterbury Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, 26 March, in the Chapel of Our Lady of Martyrdom in Canterbury Cathedral, the archbishop participated in a meeting and common prayer with Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity and a high-level Catholic delegation.<\/p>\n<p>A letter from the Pope <\/p>\n<p>The event commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Common Declaration of 24 March 1966\u2014the first formal ecumenical declaration between the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church, signed by Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey. On the occasion, Cardinal Koch delivered a letter of good wishes and blessings from Pope Leo to Archbishop Mullally at the start of her public ministry in the Church of England and worldwide Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Mullally\u2019s gratitude\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>A statement released by Lambeth Palace said the Archbishop thanked the Pope for his prayers and assured him of her own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply grateful for your gracious letter and for the assurance of your prayers at the time of my installation as Archbishop of Canterbury,\u201d she wrote. \u201cYour words of encouragement and your invocation of the Holy Spirit&#8217;s guidance, are received with profound appreciation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Archbishop of Canterbury,\u201d Mullally continued in her message to Pope Leo XIV, \u201cI too am called to serve as an instrument of communion within the Anglican Communion, and to seek the full and visible unity to which our Lord has called us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Concluding, she added: \u201cI very much look forward to meeting Your Holiness in the near future and to continuing to strengthen the bonds of friendship and our shared commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Most Revd Dame Sarah Mullally will be received by the Pope during her visit to Rome from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[175964,175963,59,57,58,6269,50,63274,56,54,55,153005],"class_list":["post-501218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-anglican-communion","tag-ecumenism","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-meeting","tag-news","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vatican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}