The bishop named by the Pope as the next Bishop of Plymouth has declined the appointment three months after his installation was mysteriously delayed.
Just days before Auxiliary Bishop Philip Moger of Southwark was due to be installed at Plymouth Cathedral he announced that the ceremony would not go ahead as planned.
He said at the time that concerns of “a personal nature” had been raised and must be resolved before he could succeed Mark O’Toole, who left the diocese to serve as Archbishop of Cardiff and Menevia.
