Poverty will be one of the main items on the agenda of the General Synod, the body that leads the Church of England, which will gather at “Church House”, in Central London, from February 9^th to 13^th. The three houses formed by the Bishops, pastors and lay people of the Anglican Church that make up the Synod, will celebrate the 40^th anniversary of “Faith in the City”, the report commissioned in 1985 by the then Archbishop Robert Runcie, who decried the state of serious inequality in many British cities, the outcome of the harsh subsidy-cutting policies of Thatcher’s age. The Synod will discuss the rising gap between rich and poor and will take stock of the work done by parishes and associations to fight this social plague. Items on the agenda will include the decision taken by the Bishops a few weeks ago to temporarily stop the process that had led to ceremonies celebrating stable same-sex couples and not change the rules that, right now, prevent homosexual pastors from attending same-sex marriages, which in the United Kingdom have been legal since 2014. On Tuesday, February 10^th, the newly-appointed Archbishop of Canterbury and Anglican primate Sarah Mullally, the very first woman at the helm of the Church of England and the Anglican Communion, composed of 95 million devotees in 165 countries, will be speaking at the Synod for the first time. Sarah Mullally will take office on Wednesday, January 28^th, with a ceremony in St Paul’s Cathedral, in London, which will be followed by the official enthronement in Canterbury Cathedral on March 25^th.