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Justin Welby: the life and times of archbishop of Canterbury
Key dates in the life of Justin Welby - from oil industry executive to globetrotting missionary to archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA
6 January 1956
Born in London. His parents divorce when he is three. His father came from a German Jewish family and was a businessman with a bootlegging past in the US who died in 1977. His mother, a former secretary to Winston Churchill, remarries and becomes Lady Williams of Elvel.
1969 - 1974
Educated at Eton College.
1975 - 1978
Gains MA from Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studies history and law, and meets his future wife, Caroline Eaton, with whom he has six children.
Welby with his wife, Caroline. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
1978 - 1983
Works at Société Nationale Elf Aquitaine in Paris.
1983 - 1989
Works for Elf UK and Enterprise Oil in London. During his work in the oil industry Welby is involved mainly with west African and North Sea oil projects and becomes group treasurer for the FTSE 100 oil exploration group Enterprise Oil. In Paris, he is a council member at St Michael's church. He later becomes a lay leader at the evangelical Holy Trinity Brompton in London.
1983
Welby's seven-month-old daughter Johanna dies in a car crash. "It was a very dark time for my wife, Caroline, and myself, but in a strange way it actually brought us closer to God," he said in 2011.
Welby meets the Queen at Buckingham Palace on his first day in office as archbishop of Canterbury on Tuesday. Photograph: Getty Images
1989 – 1992
Welby gives up his six-figure executive salary to train to be an Anglican priest, taking a theology degree at St John's College, Durham. He is particularly interested business ethics and produces a booklet entitled Can Companies Sin?
1992
Ordained as a deacon, he spends 15 years serving Coventry diocese. "I was unable to get away from a sense of God calling. I went kicking and screaming but I couldn't escape it," he said last year.
1992 - 1995
Becomes assistant curate of All Saints Chilvers Coton with St Mary the Virgin Astley in Nuneaton. Welby works hard on connecting young people to the church, after local authority cuts hit the provision of youth projects.
1993
Becomes a priest.
1995 - 2002
Rector of St James, Southam, and St Michael and All Angels, Ufton, diocese of Coventry. Congregations increase during his time and bereavement and baptism teams are launched.
2000 - 2002
Chairs an NHS hospital trust in South Warwickshire.
2002 - 2005
Canon residentiary, Coventry cathedral. Co-director for international ministry at the International Centre for Reconciliation, an anti-conflict organisation based at the cathedral. Welby risks his life during several trips to the Niger Delta working on a reconciliation between Shell and the Ogoni people. He also travels extensively to the Middle East to meet religious and political leaders.
2005 – 2007
Canon residentiary and sub dean, Coventry cathedral.
2007
Priest-in-charge, Holy Trinity, Coventry.
2007 – 2011
Dean of Liverpool. During his four years in Toxteth, one of England's most deprived areas, Welby increases the size of the congregation significantly and hosts events with the Trades Union Congress and royal services among others. He also reaches out to asylum seekers and the community at large.
2 June 2011
Elected bishop of Durham, one of the most senior posts in the Church of England.
2012
Joins the parliamentary commission on banking standards. "Focusing on profit alone is an ethic of greed. Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking," he said in an interview with Money Marketing in September.
21 March 2013
Welby is enthroned as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury. In July 2012 he said he did not want the job, adding in his typically self-deprecating manner: "Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England."
Born in London. His parents divorce when he is three. His father came from a German Jewish family and was a businessman with a bootlegging past in the US who died in 1977. His mother, a former secretary to Winston Churchill, remarries and becomes Lady Williams of Elvel.
1969 - 1974
Educated at Eton College.
1975 - 1978
Gains MA from Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studies history and law, and meets his future wife, Caroline Eaton, with whom he has six children.
Welby with his wife, Caroline. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA 1978 - 1983
Works at Société Nationale Elf Aquitaine in Paris.
1983 - 1989
Works for Elf UK and Enterprise Oil in London. During his work in the oil industry Welby is involved mainly with west African and North Sea oil projects and becomes group treasurer for the FTSE 100 oil exploration group Enterprise Oil. In Paris, he is a council member at St Michael's church. He later becomes a lay leader at the evangelical Holy Trinity Brompton in London.
1983
Welby's seven-month-old daughter Johanna dies in a car crash. "It was a very dark time for my wife, Caroline, and myself, but in a strange way it actually brought us closer to God," he said in 2011.
Welby meets the Queen at Buckingham Palace on his first day in office as archbishop of Canterbury on Tuesday. Photograph: Getty Images 1989 – 1992
Welby gives up his six-figure executive salary to train to be an Anglican priest, taking a theology degree at St John's College, Durham. He is particularly interested business ethics and produces a booklet entitled Can Companies Sin?
1992
Ordained as a deacon, he spends 15 years serving Coventry diocese. "I was unable to get away from a sense of God calling. I went kicking and screaming but I couldn't escape it," he said last year.
1992 - 1995
Becomes assistant curate of All Saints Chilvers Coton with St Mary the Virgin Astley in Nuneaton. Welby works hard on connecting young people to the church, after local authority cuts hit the provision of youth projects.
1993
Becomes a priest.
1995 - 2002
Rector of St James, Southam, and St Michael and All Angels, Ufton, diocese of Coventry. Congregations increase during his time and bereavement and baptism teams are launched.
2000 - 2002
Chairs an NHS hospital trust in South Warwickshire.
2002 - 2005
Canon residentiary, Coventry cathedral. Co-director for international ministry at the International Centre for Reconciliation, an anti-conflict organisation based at the cathedral. Welby risks his life during several trips to the Niger Delta working on a reconciliation between Shell and the Ogoni people. He also travels extensively to the Middle East to meet religious and political leaders.
2005 – 2007
Canon residentiary and sub dean, Coventry cathedral.
2007
Priest-in-charge, Holy Trinity, Coventry.
2007 – 2011
Dean of Liverpool. During his four years in Toxteth, one of England's most deprived areas, Welby increases the size of the congregation significantly and hosts events with the Trades Union Congress and royal services among others. He also reaches out to asylum seekers and the community at large.
2 June 2011
Elected bishop of Durham, one of the most senior posts in the Church of England.
2012
Joins the parliamentary commission on banking standards. "Focusing on profit alone is an ethic of greed. Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking," he said in an interview with Money Marketing in September.
21 March 2013
Welby is enthroned as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury. In July 2012 he said he did not want the job, adding in his typically self-deprecating manner: "Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England."
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