UNITED KINGDOM
ITV
The Archbishop of Canterbury has formally apologised to the Dean of Jersey for years of “hurt” following an investigation into allegations of abuse in the church in the island.
The Dean’s handling of a complaint from a parishioner about abuse she claimed she suffered at the hands of a senior figure in the church was the subject of a formal investigation, and led to the breakdown of relations between the Jersey church and the Winchester Diocese to which it officially belongs.
Jersey is currently being ‘managed’, instead, by the Bishop of Dover.
Today, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby has written to Jersey’s Bailiff, in which he acknowledges the “enormous personal stress hurt and uncertainty” suffered by Bob Key and his wife Daphne.
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