Archbishop of Canterbury's resignation sparks speculation over successor

As Rowan Williams, announced the transfer to the University of Cambridge, attention is directed to the candidates and Chartres Sentamu

Exhausted by 10 years trying to hold together a church and a worldwide federation of churches who do not want both to be held together, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, announced his resignation.

"The worst aspects of the work, I think, was the sense that there are conflicts that will not disappear, even fight with them, and everyone in the Anglican Communion, or even in the Church of England is willing to avoid schism or separation, "Williams said in an interview published on the occasion of your ad.

Although there may be continued for eight years, he will be back in academia, as master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in January 2013. His time in office was characterized by a slow-growing schism in the Anglican Church, which he could not cure.

throughout its mandate, which was attacked by conservatives for his liberal views on homosexuality and the Liberals for not living its principles. But he was respected by all sides for his gifts as a preacher of great eloquence and clarity flashes.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, said Williams was "the best gift God could have given to the Anglican Communion. His intelligence, spirituality and prayer conducted a rebel communion together. With other less gifted than he would have torn. "

Labour leader, Ed Miliband, Twitter ". Rowan Williams, will be sorely missed as Archbishop of Canterbury, did what he said he would do - defy the imagination of our country"

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Williams led him into conflict with the government, guest editor especially when a copy of the New Statesman last year, which was taken by the Conservatives as a statement hostilities.

the bookies favorite to succeed him is Archbishop of Uganda, born in York, John Sentamu, who said he had received the news of Williams's resignation "with great sadness. "

Another name frequently mentioned is the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, who opposes women's ordination, but he became increasingly quiet. Both men are over 61 years, Williams.

• younger candidates have left their mark on the world outside the church, however, when Graham James, Bishop of Norwich, and Nick Baines, Bishop of Bradford, are the two names mentioned.
The timing of the resignation of Williams, is said to have nothing to do with the current debate on government proposals to allow gay marriage. However, your children are at school and left, and he served for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen. Time is now leaving for his successor to prepare the next Lambeth Conference, a worldwide meeting of Anglican bishops due 2018. The latter was marked by a schism after the American Anglican Church ordained a bishop openly gay Gene Robinson.

Williams expects to heal the schism by getting all the member churches of the Anglican Communion to sign a treaty or an agreement that prevents agenda openly gay clergy without the consent of the factory . But nothing in the way alliance, should be approved by a majority of the diocese of the Church of England. So far, 17 rejected and 11 approved. It seems likely that five will reject the vote of the weekend HRT, which would defeat the whole scheme.

also seems likely that the governing body of the Church, the General Synod, meets this summer to make a final decision in favor of women bishops, once again reject the Archbishop commitment laboriously gathered intended to reassure opponents that will not be expelled from the church.

Buckingham Bishop Alan Wilson summed up the feelings of many liberal churches when he said: "Given the breakneck pace and intensity of work has been done, many people feel the next movement is a clever and well-deserved back in a place where you can really develop their theology free of institutional constraints that come with your current job. "

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