Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and most senior bishop of the Church of England, has resigned over the handling of an alleged child sex abuse scandal.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has resigned – after asking The King’s permission to step aside. The Most Reverend Justin Welby has stepped aside after pressure from clergy over his handling of child abuse allegations.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior Church of England bishop, spiritual leader of Anglicans, and a friend of King Charles III, resigned Tuesday over his handling of a sex abuse scandal. The Most Reverend Justin Welby had faced growing pressure to step down after the publication last week of a damning report on the cover-up by the church of a sadist who subjected private schoolboys attending evangelical Christian holiday camps in the 1970s and ’80s to horrendous physical,