ENGLAND
Christian Today
October 17, 2017
By Harry Farley
The late Bishop of Chester, Hubert Victor Whitsey, would have faced police questioning were he still alive after more than 10 allegations of child sex abuse were made by witnesses, the Church of England admitted on Tuesday.
The abuse is said to have happened from 1974 while Bishop Whitsey was still in his role in Chester and from 1981 after he retired and was living in the Blackburn diocese. Before his promotion to Chester, he had been Bishop of Hertford and earlier worked as a parish priest in Chorley, South Ribble and Bolton.
The Archbishop of York apologised to those affected, saying he is ‘deeply sorry’ and describing sex abuse as a ‘heinous crime’ in a statement alongside the current Bishop of Chester, Dr Peter Forster.
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