Archdeacon says he didn’t know he wasn’t meant to have an affair with a women he married six months earlier!

Stuff reports:

An Anglican priest has resigned from his position after having an affair with a woman he officiated a marriage for a few months earlier.

Reverend Pitotori (Peter) Naera, from the Far North, told an Anglican Church tribunal he “didn’t know it was against the rules”.

A tribunal decision from October 2022, stated Naera indicated he wouldn’t be willing to undertake counselling or training on issues relating to the affair, as he intended to resign.

The tribunal noted the affair was not a “one-off” incident and the woman he was having an affair with had been married to her husband less than six months.

I only did Sunday School to my teens and even I know that Anglican priests are not meant to have sex outside marriage, let alone bonk the parishoner you married a few months ago.

The notion that an Archdeacon had no idea this was against the rules is hilarious.