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Vicar who shared 9/11 conspiracy slur axed by Church of England

Dr Sizer said his views had been routinely misrepresented and distorted

(Picture: PA Archive)

A Church of England vicar who shared anti-Semitic material and “gave encouragement to conspiracy theories” has been barred from ministry for 12 years.

The Reverend Dr Stephen Sizer, 69, the former vicar of Christ Church in Virginia Water, Surrey, was found by a church tribunal to have engaged in conduct “unbecoming to the office and work of a clerk in Holy Orders”.

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