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2011-09-11 Britain
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ArchDruid to retire early
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 The Archbishop of Canterbury is planning to resign next year, nearly a decade before he is due to step down, it can be revealed.
| Oh thank goodness. Any chance the next one will actually believe in God? Hoping that he is a Christian, and even an Anglican, is probably too much to ask for the chief prelate of the Church of England. |
Dr Rowan Williams is understood to have told friends he is ready to quit the highest office in the Church of England to pursue a life in academia.
The news will trigger intense plotting behind the scenes over who should succeed the 61-year-old archbishop, who is not required to retire until he is 70.
Bishops have privately been arguing for Dr Williams to stand down, with the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, the Bishop of London, telling clergy he should give someone else a chance after nearly ten years in the post.
Lambeth Palace would not be drawn into confirming or denying whether the archbishop will be leaving next year.
Sources close to the archbishop say he will leave after the Queen's Diamond Jubilee next June and having seen the Church finally pass legislation to allow women to become bishops.
It is understood that Trinity College, Cambridge, is preparing to create a professorship for Dr Williams, who studied theology and was a chaplain at the university.
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