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Priest fired over alleyway tryst with a parishioner...
Daily Mail
November 16, 2014
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2836332/Priest-fired-alleyway-tryst-parishioner-Married-Church-England-cleric-describes-cheating-biggest-mistake-life.html
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| Rev Stephen Vincent was a curate at St Giles Church of England church, pictured, when he met the woman |
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| Rev Vincent denied his encounter was in an alley, describing the area as an 'enclosed courtyard' |
Priest fired over alleyway tryst with a parishioner: Married Church of England cleric describes cheating as the 'biggest mistake of my life'
A married Church of England cleric has been removed from his post after having sex with a parishioner in ‘an alleyway’.
The Rev Stephen Vincent, a 40-year-old father of three young children, said yesterday he had made the ‘biggest mistake of my life’ by sending the woman explicit texts and cheating on his wife.
Just three days after Mr Vincent had been ordained as a priest, the Cambridge-educated cleric and the woman – referred to only as ‘X’ at a Church of England disciplinary hearing – had sex in what was described as an alleyway.
In 2012, Mr Vincent was working as a curate at St Giles in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, when his rector introduced him to the parishioner. After a text message exchange, the couple had sex.
Speaking to The Mail on Sunday, Mr Vincent, now unemployed, said: ‘The first encounter wasn’t in an alleyway. It was in an enclosed courtyard and was more of a fumble. The second time, she invited me to her house and we had consensual sex.’
The case has emerged as the Church of England’s General Synod prepares to debate revised guidelines for the conduct of the clergy tomorrow.
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