Priest Declines Irish Bishopric After Press Highlights His Past

Priest Declines Irish Bishopric After Press Highlights His Past

From The Religious Times-

THE Ven. Leslie Stevenson, who was to assertion been hallowed this week as Bishop of Meath & Kildare, in the Irish Republic, withdrew on Sunday on one occasion a press survey against him.

His town to step departure from the subject followed two newspaper articles. One in the Dublin-based Sunday Occurrence Job noted that he would be the first divorced bishop in the history of the Religious of Ireland, and that he had had a relationship on one occasion his first marriage failed.

The second appeared final Friday in the Belfast-based Nationalist manuscript Irish Rumor, which not compulsory that Archdeacon Stevenson's religious observance was in pang. It named the woman with whom he had had a relationship, who is now a portion vicar in the diocese of Connor.

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http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2013/3-may/news/uk/priest-declines-irish-bishopric-after-press-highlights-his-past

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