Justin Welby Biography
Justin Welby is a British bishop who has served as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury since 2013. Welby formerly served as the rector of Southam, Warwickshire, and then as Bishop of Durham for slightly over a year. He is the Primate of All England and the symbolic head primus inter pares of the Anglican Communion globally.
Justin Welby Age
He is 67 years old as of 6 January 2023. His birth name is Justin Portal Welby. He was born on 6 January 1956 in London, United Kingdom.
Justin Welby Family
Welby’s mother, Jane Portal, was the daughter of journalist and historian Iris Butler and Conservative politician Sir Montagu Butler. Their fathers were George Butler, the Dean of Peterborough and headmaster of Harrow School, and John Colenso, the first Bishop of Natal. Gervas Portal, a half-brother of Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, and Rose Leslie Portal née Napier, the granddaughter of General Sir William Napier and his wife, Caroline Amelia Fox, were Jane’s parents.
General Napier and his siblings were the sons of George Napier and Lady Sarah Lennox, George’s second wife. Caroline Amelia Fox was the younger sister of important Whig politician Charles James Fox, and the daughter of General Henry Edward Fox and his wife Lady Caroline Lennox. Caroline and Sarah Lennox were two of the five Lennox sisters, daughters of the 2nd Duke of Richmond, son of the 1st Duke of Richmond and illegitimate son of King Charles II and his lover Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth.
Justin Welby Education
Between 1964 and 1968, Welby attended St Peter’s School in Seaford, Eton College, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where his great-uncle, Lord Butler of Saffron Walden, was the master. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and law in 1978, and as is customary, he was later elevated to Master of Arts by seniority.
Welby is a well-known historian who attended St Peter’s School, Eton College, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in history and law in 1978, and was later elevated to Master of Arts. Welby experienced a deep conversion while at Trinity College, feeling a sense of transformation and the presence of God. He was humiliated by the discovery and subsequently confessed that it was the outcome of a friend’s teachings that led to his conversion.
Justin Welby LGBTQ – Homosexuality
Archbishop Welby declared in 2013 that sex outside of marriage is immoral, regardless of gender. He supported the Church of England’s long-standing objection to same-sex marriage and stressed the significance of loving as Jesus Christ loves us. He acknowledged the difficulties of special blessing rituals for same-sex couples, as well as the risk that it might lead to rejection of LGBT persons and a similarity to racism. Welby selected a bishop who was in a same-sex partnership in 2016 and backed clergy who were in celibate same-sex unions. However, he has become less clear about his position on human sexuality and does not consider opposing homosexual sex to be homophobic.
In 2023, Welby endorses a House of Bishops plan that keeps marriage as between one man and one woman while still allowing prayers of gratitude and devotion for same-sex couples. He is the first Archbishop of Canterbury to publicly embrace this proposition.
Justin Welby Net Worth
His estimated net worth stands at an impressive £85,070.
Justin Welby Coronation
On May 6, 2023, Welby presided over the coronation of Charles III and Camilla. He was the first Archbishop of Canterbury in almost seventy years to preside over a coronation liturgy. Geoffrey Fisher, who crowned Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953, was the last archbishop to preside over a coronation.
Justin Welby Books
Welby has published several publications on ethics and money, including Managing the Church?: Order and Organization in a Secular Age and Explorations in Financial Ethics. Welby’s dissertation, an investigation of whether firms may sin, makes the notion that a system’s structure might “make it easier to make the right or wrong choice.” His dissertation resulted in the release of a pamphlet titled Can Companies Sin?: “Whether”, “How”, and “Who” in Corporate Accountability by Grove Books in 1992. He has stated that his spiritual upbringing was inspired by Benedictine and Franciscan orders in the Anglican churches, as well as Catholic social doctrine.
