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DEAN PRITCHARD | QMI AGENCY
WINNIPEG — Former archbishop Kenneth (Seraphim) Storheim took the witness stand Thursday to deny allegations he sexually molested two boys while a priest in Winnipeg nearly 30 years ago.
Storheim, who went on to become Canadian Archbishop of the Orthodox Church in America, is accused of molesting two pre-teen twin brothers in the mid-1980s when he was the rector at Holy Trinity Sobor in Winnipeg.
Storheim admitted hugging the brothers and engaging one of the boys in a conversation about puberty — “One of the stupider things I have done,” he said — but denied accusations he engaged in physically inappropriate behaviour.
“I felt compassion for the family and the very difficult circumstances they had in life,” he said.
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