By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-03-29 13:31:08 | Updated at 2025-03-31 23:59:04
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The former head of the world’s Anglicans, Justin Welby, on Saturday admitted errors over an abuse scandal that rocked the Church of England and forced him to resign last year.
The ex-Archbishop of Canterbury, who was temporarily replaced in January by the Archbishop of York, reflected on the fallout in an interview with the BBC, which will be released in full on Sunday.
Welby, 68, resigned after a report found the Church of England had covered up a 1970s serial abuse case and that he failed to report the abuses to authorities when they came to his attention in 2013.
According to the independent probe, John Smyth, a lawyer who organised evangelical summer camps in the 1970s and 1980s, was responsible for the abuse of as many as 130 boys and young men.
Smyth died aged 75 in South Africa in 2018 while under investigation by British police. He never faced any criminal charges.
