The last few days have renewed my long felt and profound sense of shame at the historic safeguarding failures of the Church of England, Welby said.
Welby announced his resignation in sorrow, taking personal and institutional responsibility for a lack of action on the heinous abuses allegedly committed by the late John Smyth.
Justin Welby resigned five days after the independent Makin Report singled him out for criticism over his handling of abuse allegations dating back to the 1970s.
Smyth was an evangelical, Canadian-born, British barrister who held leadership roles in a charity that ran Christian camps in England and Wales.
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