A woman will lead the Church of England for the first time in the history of the centuries-old institution. The Rev. Sarah Mullally was appointed as the 106th archbishop of Canterbury on Friday, the U.K. government announced, which will soon formally make her the spiritual leader of over 85 million people who practice the Anglican faith globally.

Mullally, who is a former nurse in Britain's National Health Service, will officially become the archbishop at a ceremony in London at St. Paul's Cathedral in January. For the past seven years, Mullally has served as the bishop of London, where she was also the first woman to hold that position. She had previously been the most senior U.K. government adviser on nursing as the government's chief nursing officer for England, and was the youngest pe

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