AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
Nick Butterly – The West Australian on September 7, 2016
The peak body of the Anglican Church says another bishop would have to make a complaint to force Perth Archbishop Roger Herft from his job.
But the Church’s special internal tribunal is yet to get an official complaint about the Archbishop.
The details come amid expectations in some parts of the Church that Archbishop Herft is preparing to stand down after admitting to a royal commission that he let down survivors of child sexual abuse.
Should he resign, Archbishop Herft would be the highest ranking casualty of the long-running Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
A spokesman for Melbourne Archbishop Philip Freier, who is the head of the Anglican Church in Australia, toldThe West Australian that any administrative action against Archbishop Herft would have to be brought on by another senior Church figure.
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