The news that an ancient and beautiful cathedral in Peterborough has announced that it may go broke and have to close because it can no longer pay its bills has shocked the Anglican world. It came shortly after the day that Justin Welby’s formal resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury took effect.
Several commentators linked the two announcements; the imminent closure of the first Anglican cathedral to go bust inevitably became something of a backdrop to a variety of attempts to assess the record of the former archbishop in office.
