Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse and current Bishop of London, has been named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
She’ll be installed at Canterbury Cathedral in March.
Sarah was educated at Winston Churchill Comprehensive School in Woking before moving on to Woking Sixth Form College.
She became a nurse and in 1980 she started a nursing degree with clinical placements at St Thomas’ Hospital.
Sarah was awarded joint Registered General Nurse (RGN) status and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1984.
She held clinical nursing posts at St Thomas’ Hospital and The Royal Marsden Hospital where she completed their specialist nursing course.
She has also held several nursing leadership roles, firstly at the former Westminster Hospital where she was a Ward Sister and head of practice development and then as director of nursing at the Chelsea and Westminster, later becoming deputy and acting chief executive officer.
In 1999, she was appointed as Chief Nursing Officer and Director of Patient Experience for England: she was the youngest person to hold these positions.
