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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…