A church standards board has determined Roger Herft should no longer be an ordained member because of a failure to deal with allegations against other priests when he was the Bishop of Newcastle.
Anglican Archbishop Roger Herft could be defrocked in about a month as a church standards board considers allegations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse.
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