Metro
June 23, 2009
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A clergyman who refused to leave his vicarage after being barred from office for having an affair was today given 28 days to leave the property.
The Reverend Patrick Okechi was told by a judge at Birmingham County Court that the Bishops of Lichfield and Wolverhampton were entitled to repossess the house in West Bromwich, West Midlands.
Mr Okechi, the former vicar of the Church of the Good Shepherd with St John in West Bromwich, had refused to vacate the vicarage after being found guilty last December of conduct unbecoming to the office and work of a clerk in holy orders.
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