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Movements have moments. The installation of Sarah Elisabeth Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury, on the Feast of the Annunciation 2026, was one such moment for women’s equality in religion. Several millennia after Mary allegedly agreed to be the mother of Jesus, an oncology nurse turned Anglican priest (later, Archbishop of London) became the first woman to sit in the Chair of Augustine, to be the “first among equals,” the spiritual head of the Anglican Communion worldwide. Chaucer never envisioned it.