John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu (pronounced: SEN-ta-moo; born 10 June 1949) is the 97th Archbishop of York, Metropolitan of the province of York, Primate of England and a columnist for a tabloid newspaper. He is the second most senior cleric in the Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
The Uganda-born conservative cleric is favored to replace Rowan Williams.
As Bishop of Stepney, he was one of four English bishops who refused to sign the Cambridge Accord: an attempt in 1999 to find agreement on affirming certain human rights of homosexuals, notwithstanding differences within the church on the morality of homosexual behaviour. In 2012 he stated his opposition to government plans to legalise same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom, asserting that “Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman,” and “We’ve seen dictators [redefine marriage] in different contexts and I don’t want to redefine very clear social structures that have been in existence for a long time.