Bishop sent on leave over friendship with colleague
Ruth Gledhill
March 13, 2008

A bishop at the centre of speculation over his relationship with a married vicar has been sent on “gardening leave”.

The Right Rev Carl Cooper, Bishop of St David’s in the Anglican Church in Wales, has been ordered out of the pulpit by the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, while Church leaders investigate his relationship with the Rev Mandy Williams-Potter, his press officer.

The marriages of the Bishop and of Mrs Williams-Potter have broken down, but both clerics insist that no one else is involved in either break-up. the rest