Jailed Anglican prelate faces new abuse allegations
July 14, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Rt. Rev. Anthony Pierce, the Anglican bishop of Swansea and Brecon, Wales, from 1999 to 2008, faces additional allegations of the sexual abuse of male teenagers, four months after his imprisonment.
“I’m dumbfounded as to why this man with allegations swirling around him in 1985 and 1986 was allowed to be employed by the church,” said one man who alleges that Pierce abused him.
“And they promoted him to bishop,” the man continued. “He was a predator, and we were the prey, and the church did nothing about it.”
(The Catholic Church, which recognizes the validity of the orders conferred in the separated Eastern churches, teaches that Anglican orders are invalid.)
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