Dame Sarah Mullally, the first woman to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury, will preach at Christ Church Greenwich on Sept. 27, marking her first visit to an American church.

The 8 a.m. service at the Episcopal church at 254 East Putnam Ave. will include a procession and choirs, the Greenwich Sentinel reported. Seating and parking are limited, so advance registration is required at christchurchgreenwich.org. A livestream will also be available through the church's website.

Mullally is the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury and the first woman to hold the position in its more than 1,400-year history. As the senior bishop of the Church of England, she serves as a principal spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, which includes the Episcopal Church in the United States. Christ Church Greenwich, established in 1749, is a member of that communion.

The archbishop does not govern Anglican churches directly but serves as a focus of unity within the communion's roughly 85 million members across 165 countries.

Her path to Canterbury wound through nursing, public service and church leadership. Before entering ministry, Mullally worked as a cancer nurse and became England's Chief Nursing Officer at age 37, the youngest person ever appointed to that role, according to the Diocese of Oxford.

She was ordained in the early 2000s and rose steadily through the Church of England. In 2015, she became Suffragan Bishop of Crediton in the Diocese of Exeter, the fourth woman to serve as a bishop in the church. On May 12, 2018, she was installed as the 133rd Bishop of London at St. Paul's Cathedral, another first for a woman.

At the coronation of King Charles III at Westminster Abbey in 2023, Mullally read the Gospel. Her election as archbishop was confirmed in January 2026, and she was installed at Canterbury Cathedral on March 25, 2026.

When her appointment was announced in October 2025, Mullally said she intended to be "a shepherd who enables everyone's ministry and vocation to flourish, whatever our tradition," according to Britannica.

Registration is required. Those who cannot attend in person can watch the livestream at christchurchgreenwich.org.