Much has been written and said about the selection of Sarah Mullally as the next Archbishop of Canterbury. Indeed her election makes the apostasy of that organisation all but indisputable. The Church of England left New Testament Christianity behind long ago - even at its inception in the 1500's. That said, many laboured within it attempting to apply the New Testament and turn it into something more sound. They failed, and the failure has been apparent for a very long time. The election of Sarah Mullally means they cannot pretend any more. I actually count it a positive. We can literally 'write off' the Church of England. The viable sections connected to 'Anglicanism' are now outside of and disassociated from communion with that See.
I find it rather more interesting that few comment on how the seat is filled - the process by which bishops and archbishops are selected. King Charles (who is certainly not a Christian) is the Head of the Church of England - an ever present reminder of the Church of England's absurd origin. And as such, the 'Church' has always been connected to the crown and the Establishment. As an Erastian body, it's there to reinforce the order and as such a true gospel witness has always been problematic as it (the gospel) creates a divide, an antithesis with the culture at large. That doesn't really work with an Established Church. Never mind the fact that the Kingdom and its claims are fundamentally at odds with the claims and goals of the kingdoms of this world - which would certainly include both England and the British Empire.
The Church of England has been compromised at every turn. I found the coronation of Charles to be an interesting event to watch but I was repeatedly struck by the most absurd figure in the whole affair - the Archbishop Justin Welby and how sycophantic and impotent his testimony appeared in connection to those events. There was no gospel witness, but a capitulation - indeed a Faustian bargain. He's there to serve the British Crown and as such sets aside the Kingdom of Heaven. Only by a heretical re-conception of the Church can the twain be brought together and synthesized.
With his resignation, I took more careful note as to the process and was appalled (but hardly surprised) to learn the role played by the political order in selecting the new Archbishop of Canterbury. The Prime Minister is involved - regardless of the fact that Starmer is an atheistic Jew. The Crown Commission was headed by the former head of MI5! - hardly a post connected with solid ethics or Christian values. The post is in reality the chief spy and thief of the kingdom who (if he wants to) will kick your door in if he thinks you're guilty of thought-crime. The very notion that this man would be involved in shepherding ecclesiastical appointments is abhorrent. I don't care that Baron Evans counts himself a Christian. It's simply further testimony that in the context of Christendom or in an Erastian arrangement (such as the Church of England) the term is meaningless.
The fact that the King and Prime Minister (by delegation), and a former head of MI5 play a role in selecting the head cleric testifies to the fact that Erastianism is alive and well - one of the most impactful and unfortunate results of the Magisterial Reformation.
The Magisterial Reformation (right or wrong) broke the consensus that had governed Christendom. This spawned crisis, social collapse, and a series of terrible wars. The end result was a move toward constitutional republican government (often with an attendant monarch), pluralism, and humanism. It was as if a new religion had emerged, and it quickly grew and permutated - and these Erastian-type arrangements had no mechanism to resist compromise and change. Often corrupt, the clerical leaders simply followed along and ratified the ever-changing order. As such when the West embraced feminism, so did the Church of England as well as the various Lutheran bodies in Northern and Central Europe. Theological modernism invaded as well and since even smaller dissenting bodies (in places like France) were still wed to the state - they more or less followed the cultural and political tide as well. The end result has been utter apostasy and the ascendancy of Sarah Mullally simply adds an exclamation point to that already longstanding extant reality.
And now to combat this we have many that simply want to turn back to some dreamed up (and often fantastical) version of Christendom. Nothing has been learned, but we should make the most of the moment and testify regarding these events and the assumptions behind them.