In 2006 the Archbishop spent a week living inside a tent in York Minster.The Guardian has published an interview today with the Archbishop of York John Sentamu. The article includes a funny anecdote in which the interviewer Stephen Moss assumed the Archbishop lived within the precinct of York Minster. Actually, the Primate of England has his official palace at Bishopthorpe and has lived there since 1241.
The Church of England's No. 2 came to Britain as a political refugee from Uganda in the 1970's. The presence of an African like Sentamu at York emphasizes the global scale of the Anglican Communion and the challenges it faces in holding together such a diverse flock. Hopefully, I will have the chance to meet him on one of my travels up North. Also the Archbishop gets to sit in the House of Lords.
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