On 26 February 2026, the Church in Wales published the findings of a review into the way in which Anthony Pierce, the former Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, was appointed to senior church roles in the 1990s, despite senior clergy knowing of sexual abuse allegations against him. This present post includes extracts from the Disciplinary Tribunal to which he was referred on the grounds that he engaged in conduct giving just cause for scandal or offence contrary to Chapter IX, Paragraph 9(c) of the Constitution of the Church in Wales.
There have been a number of referrals to the Tribunal on similar grounds, but here the Court commented (at [20]): “The Church in Wales has never before found itself in the circumstance of deposing a Bishop from their Orders.”