THE Archbishop of York opted to accept a new witness statement from a male complainant, known as Survivor N, in a Clergy Discipline Measure (CDM) case against the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, in a preliminary judgment, dated 22 December. But Archbishop Cottrell said that he would not consider statements from four other individuals.

Survivor N’s complaint relates to Bishop Mullally’s handling of allegations that he made against a priest in the diocese. In early December, it emerged that the complaint, which was filed in 2020, had not been taken further owing to the diocesan registrar’s mistakenly thinking that Survivor N did not wish to proceed (News, 12 December).

Archbishop Cottrell is now considering whether to progress the complaint, after requesting, and receiving, a formal response from Bishop Mullally, who is Archbishop of Canterbury-elect.

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