LONDON (AP) — A former chief of the Church of England has resigned as a priest following allegations that he didn’t correctly deal with the case of a priest accused of sexual misconduct.
George Carey, who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, stop after a BBC investigation reported that he allowed a priest who had been banned over sexual abuse claims to return to priesthood.
His resignation letter, despatched on Dec. 4, stated he had been in lively ministry since 1962 and is popping 90. The letter didn’t point out the investigation.
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The BBC reported that Carey agreed to permit a priest, David Tudor, to return to working within the church in 1994 after Tudor was suspended from ministry for 5 years over allegations of assault towards teenage women.
Documents recommended that Carey advocated for Tudor to get a job in a diocese, the BBC reported.
Carey’s resignation got here as one other senior clergyman on account of take short-term cost of the Church of England confronted calls to resign over his dealing with of Tudor’s case.
Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell reportedly allowed Tudor to stay in his submit regardless of understanding he had been barred by the church from being alone with kids and had paid compensation to one among his accusers.
Tudor was barred for all times from the ministry in October after acknowledging he had sexual relationships with two teenage women, aged 15 and 16, within the Eighties.
Cottrell is because of take over subsequent month because the church’s religious head from Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who resigned in November over the way in which he dealt with separate sexual abuse claims.
The archbishop of Canterbury is religious chief of the worldwide Anglican Communion, which has 85 million adherents in 165 international locations. It has been riven by sharply divergent views on points equivalent to homosexual rights and the place of girls within the church.
