Sarah Mullally installed as the first female Bishop of London
She followed the tradition of knocking three times on the cathedral’s Great West Door with her pastoral staff
Sarah Mullally has been installed as the first female Bishop of London, becoming the third most senior cleric in the Church of England.
Mullally was installed as the 133rd Bishop of London at St. Paul’s Cathedral on International Nurses Day – Florence Nightingale’s birthday – echoing the new bishop’s former career as a nurse.
She followed the tradition of knocking three times on the cathedral’s Great West Door with her pastoral staff.
She is now the state church’s third most senior cleric, after the archbishops of Canterbury and York
In her sermon, she spoke of the challenges facing London, particularly escalating knife crime, and referenced historical sexual abuse within the church.
“We need to speak up for the whole of London, to work to challenge the violence and the crime that have led mothers to clean their own children’s blood from our pavements,” she said Saturday.