The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, has suspended the Bishop of Lincoln, the Right Reverend Stephen Conway, while a complaint is investigated.
The complaint, details of which have not been released, was made to the Church of England’s safeguarding team.
The Diocese of Lincoln said in a statement that the complaint had been referred “to the appropriate statutory authorities”.
A spokesperson confirmed that the Bishop of Grantham, Dr Nicholas Chamberlain, will act as the Diocesan Bishop during the suspension period and “support was in place for those affected”.
They added: “We understand that this will be a deeply unsettling time.”
Conway was formally installed as the Bishop of Lincoln in November 2023 and is also a member of the House of Lords.
He was previously Bishop of Ely and was named in the 2024 Makin Report, the independent review into systemic covering up of child sexual abuse within the Church of England during the 1970s and 80s, and which resulted in the resignation of Justin Welby as Archbishop of Canterbury.
The review suggested that Conway failed to follow up rigorously enough on information he was given in 2013 by a victim about the abuses of the prolific abuser John Smyth.
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