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Prince George’s christening will happen tomorrow and the Archbishop of Canterbury – the Most Reverend Justin Welby – spoke for the first time about the “extraordinary moment” when he will baptize Prince William and Kate Middleton’s baby son.

In a message released by Lambeth Palace, the Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke of the “great times” Prince William and Kate Middleton will have as parents in the years to come.

The 45-minute christening service will take place on Wednesday, October 23, at 3 p.m. at the Chapel Royal within St James’s Palace.

The ceremony will be conducted by the Archbishop in what he called a celebration of “the next hugely important moment” in Prince George’s life.

The Most Reverend Justin Welby said: “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have had so much advice they could probably fill a house with it.

The Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke for the first time about the "extraordinary moment" when he will baptize Prince William and Kate Middleton's baby son

The Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke for the first time about the “extraordinary moment” when he will baptize Prince William and Kate Middleton’s baby son

“My message to them would be <<what a treat, what an amazing gift, what wonderful times you will have>>.

“A few months ago millions of people around the world celebrated the birth of Prince George.

“Now we’re celebrating the next hugely important moment, which is his christening.”

Beneath the ornate Hans Holbein ceiling of the Chapel Royal, the third-in-line to the throne and future supreme governor of the Church of England will be christened George Alexander Louis.

The Archbishop of Canterbury said: “I will mark Prince George with the sign of the cross on his forehead and that’s exactly what every priest always does every single baptism.

“It’s an extraordinary moment because that is the sign by which we understand this person belongs to God.

“There’ll be great times, there’ll be tough times – there always are with children.

“Through christening you are bringing God into the middle of it all and I know that when he’s in the middle of it all, somehow, it’s held in his hands, and that’s extraordinary.”

He also talked about how Prince George’s baptism means he joins almost 2,000 million people around the world in what he calls the “family of the Church”.

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This year’s Comic Relief presented a sketch featuring Rowan Atkinson as the Archbishop of Canterbury which has drawn more than 2,200 complaints to the BBC.

In the pre-21:00 watershed sketch, Rowan Atkinson – playing a fictional version of the Archbishop of Canterbury compared boyband One Direction to Jesus’s disciples.

He also claimed praying “doesn’t work”.

According to a BBC statement, the sketch “was intended to amuse and entertain,” adding, “we did not mean to cause any offence”.

Around a quarter of the complaints were specifically about religious offence, with the rest concerned with pre-watershed language.

Archbishop sketch has since been removed from the BBC’s iPlayer.

Comic Relief sketch featuring Rowan Atkinson as the Archbishop of Canterbury has drawn more than 2,200 complaints

Comic Relief sketch featuring Rowan Atkinson as the Archbishop of Canterbury has drawn more than 2,200 complaints

The BBC received almost 3,000 complaints in total over the charity fundraising night of programming.

Other complaints over the event – which drew a peak audience of 12.2 million people – involved another sketch involving the popular series Call The Midwife.

A statement said Comic Relief was “known for pushing at the boundaries of comedy alongside heartfelt appeal films”.

It added that “getting the language, tone and content of the evening is extremely important to us… to any viewers we may have offended, we apologize”.

A host of British stars were involved in this year’s event which marked Comic Relief’s 25th anniversary.

Other sketches featured X Factor mogul Simon Cowell rejecting advances from David Walliams and Louis Walsh only to marry himself, while Ricky Gervais resurrected The Office’s David Brent for an appalling new song promoting racial diversity called Equality Street.

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