Bishop Tomé Ferreira da Silva, who oversaw the diocese in São José do Rio Preto, in the state of São Paulo, was reportedly seen in the video “half naked” and “caressing his sexual organ during a video call,” according to the Brazilian news site G1.
On Friday, the images were leaked and quickly circulated on social media. Dom Tomé, as the former bishop was known in Brazil, resigned just a few days after that.
The local newspaper Diário da Região, which gained access to the video, said that images showed a naked Dom Tomé in a video conference call with another man.
On Friday the now-former bishop confirmed that it was indeed his image that appeared in the 80-second clip, but he declined to comment any further.
He also told a reporter that he wanted to know “how this video escaped from my cell phone and arrived at the newspaper.”
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