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Bishop caught embracing a woman in bikini, resigns [photo]

By on July 1, 2012

Bishop Fernando Bargallo of the Merlo-Moreno diocese in Buenos Aires, Argentina
who was captured recently hugging a woman in a bikini on a Mexican beach has had his resignation accepted by the Vatican.

Bishop Fernando Bargallo, a Roman Catholic was placed in the center of a scandal when an Argentine television station broadcast his pictures of the bishop embracing the anonymous woman at a holiday beach resort, the BBC reported. One such image shows the bishop waist-deep in the water as he is hugging the woman in his swimming trunks.
Catholic Bishops are not supposed to get married, but instead swear a life of celibacy and give themselves over to God. The issue has been up for debate by the Vatican in recent times, although Pope Benedict XVI has remained firm in his position to uphold Roman Catholic Church teachings.

While information on the woman was not readily available, the bishop has confessed that he was having “amorous ties” with her. He had previously tried to excuse himself by saying that she was just a childhood friend, one that he had known all his life.

In a public statement, he also said that the photographs were misleading, and could lead people to make the wrong conclusions about the situation. He went as far as to ask his congregation to “forgive him for the ambiguity of the pictures,” and insisted again that the photos should only be viewed in the context of a long-standing friendship.

Later the same week, however, the bishop admitted to having an inappropriate relationship with the woman and turned in his resignation, and it has since been accepted by the Vatican

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  • Bsam

    Body No b Firewood Jhare

  • Atiladedada

    e no easy

  • Mustaphaaliyu99

    Ah,man no be wood oooo,even pope the xiv need dam nowwww

  • http://www.facebook.com/DRSNIZZ Drsnizz Uche Thompson

    better than being gay

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lawan-Murtala/100000708411284 Lawan Murtala

      But sin is always a sin b/4 God

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lawan-Murtala/100000708411284 Lawan Murtala

    I’m not a Christian but, I think if in catholic God forbid them from marriage I mean bishops then is going to be challenging for the men of God to bear a call for nature. Mean while if it is optional then whoever will not continue to hold himself should go and marry ortherwise we will be seeing this kind of scenario over and over again and is sad indeed

  • Bishop Soji

    hehehe…i think the bishop dey baptise the woman jare…make una no laugh oo :D

  • Murphy Oromo

    we need to pray for them and and allow God to take control of there life is not an easy thing.

  • Bishington1

    Let him enjoy hez life..life celebacy what the fuck is dat shit cus all I Ơ̴̴̴̴͡.̮Ơ̴̴͡ here is a man who needs and shud fuckin have sex…….

  • kolao

    Is it a crime or sin to embrasse a female,don’t let us contradict the spiritual with physical.

  • Ngoofelyo

    they are human. what they need is prayers.

  • Samola

    body no be wood…

  • Samuel

    i see this from a philosophical point of view…that the Bishop was seen hugging a woman and later confessed having affairs with her…good…accepted, but i then means that any one who wants to leave the priesthood can equally give into such situations and resign…we are not perfect beings…i think it is better to discipline erring pastors rather than…