The committee choosing the next leader of the world’s 77 million Anglicans is facing growing discontent from within the Church amid clams that the long-running process has become a “cloak and dagger” procedure.
Calls are mounting for an overhaul of the system and even growing support for future Archbishops in the Church of England to be elected.
It came as even the ancient Coptic Orthodox Church, based in Egypt- which chooses its spiritual leader in a ceremony involving a blindfolded child – announced not only the date for the selection of its new Pope but even the shortlist.
