Justin Welby

Justin Portal Welby (born 6 January 1956) is a British bishop who, since 2013, has served as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury. Welby was previously the vicar of Southam, Warwickshire, and later Bishop of Durham, serving for just over a year. Ex officio, he is the Primate of All England and the symbolic head primus inter pares of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Welby was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read history and law. Later in life, he studied for ordination at St John's College, Durham. After several parochial appointments, he became Dean of Liverpool in 2007 and Bishop of Durham in 2011. Welby's theology is reported as representing the "open evangelical" tradition within Anglicanism. He worked in business before his ordination, and some of his publications explore the relationship between finance and religion; also, as a member of the House of Lords, he sat on the panel of the 2012 Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. Early life and education