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Another data point in the descent of the Church of England
A Chaplain to the Queen who specialises in advising the clergy on marital problems has left his wife amid rumours of an affair with a woman in the congregation. Canon Andrew Clitherow, who has four children, has left his wife Rebekah. He announced the split on Sunday to his congregation at St Cuthbert's, in Lytham St Annes, Lancs. This is not the first time Canon Clitherow has left a wife. In the mid-1990s he was married to Elizabeth, with whom he had two children, when he met Rebekah. She was a pupil at Rossall School, where the young vicar spent time with the choir in his role as school chaplain. His wife-to-be was a teenage alto. By 1996, Elizabeth was living alone in nearby Fleetwood. Rev Clitherow had two children with Rebekah and they finally married in 2002. One member of Canon Clitherow's congregation said: "It is an absolute shock."
Posted by: lotp 2011-03-06 |
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