Australia’s Anglican church leader calls for Peter Hollingworth to resign for ‘good of the church’

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The Anglican church’s most senior Australian leader has called for the former Brisbane archbishop and governor general Peter Hollingworth to resign for “the good of the church”.

Hollingworth was last month found to have committed serious misconduct while archbishop in the 1990s when he failed to act to remove known paedophiles from the church.

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