A disgraced priest has been defrocked by the Catholic Church after multiple sex scandals and getting tangled up in a murder.
Anthony Cipolle, 59, was booted out of the priesthood on April 22, and is not allowed to call himself a priest or administer sacraments.
He was fired from being the parochial vicar at St Paul the Apostle Parish in Bangor, Maine, in May 2020 and he hadn’t worked as a priest since December 2018.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland said Cipolle was defrocked by his own request, and he said he wanted to move on with his life.
Cipolle had a long history of scandals and brushes with the law even before he was ordained in November 2017, and added to them almost as soon as he was.
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