EL SALVADOR
Christian Today
Ruth Gledhill CHRISTIAN TODAY CONTRIBUTING EDITOR 19 December 2016
Two Catholic priests and a bishop from San Salvador have been removed from the priesthood after being found guilty of sexual abuse.
The Archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar, confirmed that the well-known Bishop Jesús Delgado and priests Francisco Gálvez and Antonio Molina have been deposed from clerical orders, “totally and definitively” losing all priestly functions, La Prensa reports.
“From now on, they can not exercise any office or priestly function according to canon 292 of the Code of Canon Law. These resolutions of the Holy See have already been communicated respectively to each of the aforementioned priests.
“We have also communicated it to the victims, to each one of the cases respectively, and today we make it known to all,” said Archbishop Escobar.
Bishop Jesús Delgado was removed last year from his post as third in command of the Catholic Church of El Salvador.
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