Pope Leo to meet new Archbishop of Canterbury in April

The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, will meet Pope Leo XIV during her visit to Rome, scheduled from 25 to 28 April. The official announcement of the visit comes two days after her official installation in Canterbury Cathedral.

On Thursday, 26 March, in the Chapel of Our Lady of Martyrdom in Canterbury Cathedral, the archbishop participated in a meeting and common prayer with Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity and a high-level Catholic delegation.The event commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Common Declaration of 24 March 1966—the first formal ecumenical declaration between the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church, signed by Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey. On the occasion, Cardinal Koch delivered a letter of good wishes and blessings from Pope Leo to Archbishop Mullally at the start of her public ministry in the Church of England and worldwide Anglican Communion.