Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit anterior to bless the metropolis of Paris during the Holy Thursday solemnisation successful beforehand of the Sacre Coeur basilica, connected April 9, 2020 successful Paris. The archbishop of Paris said Thursday Dec.2, 2021 that Pope Francis has accepted his resignation aft helium admitted to an 'ambiguous' narration with a pistillate successful 2012. Archbishop Michel Aupetit said successful a connection helium offered to measurement down "to sphere the diocese from the part that suspicion and nonaccomplishment of spot are continuing to provoke." (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File) (Francois Mori, Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

PARIS – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the archbishop of Paris aft helium admitted to an “ambiguous” narration with a pistillate successful 2012.

Archbishop Michel Aupetit said successful a connection connected Thursday that helium offered to measurement down “to sphere the diocese from the part that suspicion and nonaccomplishment of spot are continuing to provoke.”

The Vatican said successful a connection that the pope accepted Aupetit's connection and named Monsignor George Pontier to service successful the archbishop's place.

Aupetit, who had led the Paris religion since 2018, sent a missive to Francis offering to resign pursuing a study successful Le Point mag saying helium had a consensual, intimate narration with a woman. Aupetit told Le Point helium didn’t person intersexual relations with the woman.

The nonfiction successful Le Point relied connected respective anonymous sources who said they had seen a 2012 email Aupetit sent by mistake to his secretary. Aupetit denied being the writer of the email.

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Roman Catholic prelates instrumentality vows of chastity. At the clip of the alleged relationship, Aupetit was a clergyman successful the archdiocese of Paris.

“I inquire forgiveness of those I could person wounded and guarantee you each of my heavy relationship and my prayers,” Aupetit said successful his statement. He said helium was “greatly disturbed by the attacks against me.”

In an interrogation past week with Catholic vigor Notre Dame, Aupetit said "I poorly handled the concern with a idiosyncratic who was successful interaction galore times with me.” Calling it a “mistake,” helium said helium decided nary longer to spot the pistillate aft speaking with Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, the then-Paris archbishop, successful 2012.

Only the pope tin prosecute oregon occurrence bishops, oregon judge their resignations. At 70, Aupetit is 5 years shy of the mean status property for bishops.

The pope has refused to judge akin offers from different prelates caught up successful scandal.

The erstwhile archbishop of the French metropolis of Lyon, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, offered to resign successful 2019 aft a French tribunal convicted him of failing to study a pedophile priest. Francis initially refused Barbarin's connection but aboriginal accepted it.

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More recently, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the archbishop of Munich and Freising, offered to resign implicit the Catholic Church’s “catastrophic” mishandling of clergy intersexual maltreatment cases. Francis refused to judge it and Marx remains successful office.

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