He will be moving into the position in March 2013, after the current archbishop retires.
Right off the bat he is promoting the acceptance of women bishops, and the General Synod will be voting on it later this month.
Welby is a former oil executive, who retired from that after eleven years, when he felt the call of God to join the ministry.
He moved his way up through the clerical ranks, writing papers on whether companies can sin, until being made bishop in November of 2011 and was also made a member of the House of Lords in January 2012.
A father of six children, his wife and him lost a child to a car accident in 1983.
Since joining the ministry he has setup an annual day for parents who've lost a child, to remember that child, and a book filled with the names of the lost is always on display at the Coventry Cathedral.
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