It has emerged the Archbishop of Canterbury hinted at the revelations surrounding his biological father during a visit to Africa last week.
Justin Welby met 50 young Anglicans from around the south of Africa in Zambia to discuss discipleship and environment.
Speaking to them on Thursday, prior to meeting the Zambian president (pictured above) on Friday, he said: "We need to be a church where I am who I am because I am in Jesus Christ.
"That's the only thing that gives me identity and you will see why I am saying that in a couple of days' time."
The Archbishop announced on Friday he discovered through DNA evidence his biological father was Winston Churchill's last private secretary, the late Sir Anthony Montague Brown, and not Gavin Welby.
Justin Welby learned of the news himself on the Wednesday before Easter during a visit to a playgroup in Sittingbourne, Kent.
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