LONDON, (Reuters) – Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, who has agonised about schisms in the Anglican Communion over women and gay bishops and same-sex unions, announced unexpectedly on Friday that he would step down at the end of the year.
He said it was time to move on after a decade as archbishop and his new post as master of Magdelene College at Cambridge University would give him the time “which I have longed for” to think and write about the Church.
“I would hope that my successor has the constitution of an ox and the skin of a rhinoceros,” he said.
