Conservative church group condemns choice of female Archbishop of Canterbury

Dame Sarah Mullally will become the first female Archbishop of Canterbury

"If you want to go fast, go alone - if you want to go far, go together," Dame Sarah Mullally said in her first public address as the new Archbishop of Canterbury designate.

But Friday's choice – for the first time ever - of a woman as the spiritual leader of both the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion already seems like it may exacerbate the deep fissures within that community.

The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (Gafcon), which is

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