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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Christopher Knaus

Anglican church rechecking ruling on Hollingworth after mistakenly giving survivor her abuser’s surname

Peter Hollingworth
The Anglican church’s professional standards body is rechecking its decision to allow Peter Hollingworth to remain in the church. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP

The Anglican church’s professional standards body is rechecking its decision on Peter Hollingworth for errors almost two weeks after circulating a version that mistakenly gave a survivor her abuser’s surname.

Last month the church’s professional standards board found that Hollingworth should be kept in the church despite six findings of misconduct against him, including that he failed to act to remove pedophiles while archbishop of Brisbane in the 1990s.

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