The next Archbishop of Canterbury will also have to answer a more basic question: is the institution he heads part of the establishment, with an accepted role as its moral guide, or is it called on to be a provocateur, speaking its own version of truth to power?
"This is the first time in Egypt's political history that an elected civilian politician overrules the decisions of the heads of the military establishment, " said Omar Ashour, a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution's Doha Center.