A Catholic priest of the Diocese of Middlesbrough, UK, is leaving the Catholic Church in order to join the Church of England.
Canon Stephen Maughan, who was ordained a priest in 2005 after working as a secondary school teacher, will leave the Catholic faith to become an Anglican priest in the Diocese of York.
Canon Maughan has previously served as a parish priest, hospital chaplain, school chaplain and Religious Education teacher. Until the announcement he had been parish priest of St Charles Borromeo, just outside Hull, and both Chancellor and Judicial Vicar of the Diocese. As Judicial Vicar, Canon Maughan was responsible for the Diocesan Tribunal, much of which involved processing cases of nullity of marriage.
