Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell has said things “could have been handled differently” after an investigation reported a priest at the centre of a sexual abuse case was twice reappointed to a senior role while the archbishop was serving as Bishop of Chelmsford.
Mr Cottrell, the Church of England’s second-most senior bishop, has faced calls to resign over his handling of the case of David Tudor, who was banned from ministry for life this year after admitting what the Church of England described as serious sexual abuse involving two girls aged 15 and 16.
