Priest Suspended after Affair with 18-year-old

By Tim Wyatt
Church Times
November 8, 2013

http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2013/8-november/news/uk/priest-suspended-after-affair-with-18-year-old

A MARRIED priest who had an affair with an 18-year-old womanfrom his youth group has been suspended from ministry for eightyears.

The priest, the Revd Paul Meier, aged 47, admitted misconductbefore a disciplinary tribunal of the diocese of Chichester on 24October. He was suspended from his post at St Margaret's inHorsmonden, Kent, last year.

The affair began in 2008 when Mr Meier was youth missioner inStorrington, West Sussex, where the teenager attended youth groupshe ran. Mr ...