UNITED KINGDOM
The Argus
A SUSSEX secondary school has decided to change its name because the senior clergyman it was named after was accused of being a paedophile who sexually abused a young child.
Bishop Bell School in Priory School, Eastbourne, was named after George Bell, the late bishop of Chichester, who died 57 years ago.
Last October it was revealed the Church of England had issued a formal apology for alleged sexual abuse committed by Bell against a young child, whose identity and gender has not been disclosed, in the 1940s and 50s.
Now the governing body has voted to become St. Catherine’s College, and the new name will be used when the school formally converts to a Church of England Academy ahead of the next school year in September 2016.
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