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Indonesia bishop resigns amid scandal

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VATICAN CITY — An Indonesian bishop has resigned following reports that he had a mistress and siphoned off more than US$100,000 in church funds.

Pope Francis on Wednesday accepted the resignatio­n of Bishop Hubertus Leteng of Ruteng. Denpasar bishop, Monsignor Sylvester San, will run the diocese until a permanent replacemen­t is found.

Local media and the Ucanews agency, which covers the Catholic Church in Asia, reported that dozens of priests resigned en masse in June to protest Leteng’s administra­tion. The Vatican sent an investigat­or to look into their allegation­s that Leteng had a mistress and secretly borrowed $94,000 from the Indonesian bishops’ conference and another $30,000 from the diocese without accounting for it.

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