Justin Welby, a former oil executive who was made a bishop just over a year ago, will be the next leader of the Church of England, Downing Street confirmed on Friday morning.
Justin Welby, a former oil executive who was made a bishop just over a year ago, has been appointed the next leader of the Church of England, Downing Street confirmed on Friday morning.
Cesare Borgia was made a bishop at the age of 15 and a cardinal at 18 by his father Pope Alexander VI.
A precocious young cleric, he was made a bishop at 29 and set up a network of missions in India before traveling to Africa to do the same.
He confesses his crime, whereupon God and Mary appear and aid John in reviving the princess, which done, the murderer saint is made a bishop.
He was made a bishop and a cardinal by John Paul II. Jesuits may become bishops, but must have the approval of their superior, because the founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius, lamented the clerical careerism of his age.
He was made a bishop at 20 and an archbishop at 26, and by 1264 he was assistant patriarch (chief prelate) of the Eastern Jacobite church, a group named after its founder, Jacob Baradaeus.
According to the Daily Telegraph's David Robson, "Holloway became pigeonholed as a decent man who would have made an excellent social worker, but should never have been made a bishop … How elegantly he extricates himself from the pigeonhole!
