The news that Bishop John Sentamu, presently Bishop of Birmingham, is to become the next Archbishop of York reminds us of one of the greatnesses of Anglicanism. Unlike the empire which exploited Africa ruthlessly, the Church has been deeply rewarded by its African experience by a myriad of gifts from Africa to us.
Sentamu, born in Uganda and eminently qualified, is of course like many English people nowadays not pasty white but richly African. Would that the church in Australia could find a way to be more ethnically representative and diverse.
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