Priest suspended after affair with 18-year-old

UNITED KINGDOM
Church Times

by Tim Wyatt

Posted: 08 Nov 2013

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

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

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