Pope Leo XIV has granted a request to remove clergy credentials from a former Homewood priest accused of sexual misconduct , according to a statement released today by Bishop Steven Raica, head of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham.

Robert Sullivan, 61, announced Aug. 2 that he was taking personal leave from his duties as pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Homewood beginning Aug. 4.

On Aug. 13, Raica said that Sullivan was suspended and being investigated for a relationship with a woman alleged to have begun when she was 17.

Sullivan is now no longer a priest, Raica said in the statement released today.

“In light of complaints made against him in July of this year, Father Robert Sullivan, of his own accord, submitted a petition to Pope Leo, requesting that he be dispensed from

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