Fact file: Archbishop Justin Welby

The new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/Press Association Images

  • Lists his hobbies as "anything French and sailing"

  • Has five children

  • He initially thought that it would be "a joke" and "perfectly absurd" for him to be appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, because he had only been a bishop for a short time.

  • Was previously told: "There is no place for you in the Church of England.”

  • Great-nephew of former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister, Rab Butler

  • For women bishops in the Church.

  • Former oil executive

The Rt Reverend Justin Welby at Sunderland Minster Credit: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire/Press Association Images

  • Educated at Eton and then Cambridge

  • His mother was a private secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill

  • Confessed, through his Twitter account, to having been "very sleepy" and nearly nodded off in a meeting of the General Synod.