Vatican accepts abdication of Irish Catholic bishop John Magee World headlines

Bishop John Magee give up the day-to-day using of parishes opposite farming Cork in Mar last year. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The Vatican has supposed the abdication of an Irish bishop who was once the personal cabinet member to 3 popes, it was voiced today.

The papacy pronounced Bishop John Magee was stepping down over his mishandling of allegations of ecclesiastic sex abuse in his Irish diocese.

Although Magee give up the day-to-day using of parishes opposite farming Cork last March, it has taken the Vatican bureaucracy a year to rigourously endorse his resignation.

The cleric, creatively from Northern Ireland, faced sardonic critique after the church"s watchdog found he had taken minimal movement over accusations opposite dual of his priests.

He served as personal partner to Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II in Rome.

There have been most calls for Magee"s abdication given the inform in to the Cloyne parish progressing this year.

The proclamation of his central abdication was done in matter expelled by the Irish Catholic Bishops" conference.

"His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has supposed the abdication of the Most Reverend John Magee, Bishop of Cloyne," it read.

In a summary released from the Cloyne diocesan centre, Magee welcomed the acceptance of his resignation.

He lengthened his "sincere apologies" to any chairman who was abused by "any priest" during his time as bishop "or at any time".

"To those whom I have unsuccessful in any way, or by any repudiation of cave have done suffer, I desire redemption and pardon," his matter said.

"As I pronounced on Yuletide Eve 2008 after the announcement inform of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland, I take full shortcoming for the critique of the government of issues contained in that report."

Magee pronounced he would go on to be accessible to the Irish government"s commission of review in to kid insurance procedures in the parish "at any time".

He combined that he "sincerely hopes" the work and the commentary of the commission "will be of a little assistance towards healing for those who have been abused".

In January, the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, welcomed Father Michael Mernagh, one of Magee"s strongest critics, to Dublin"s Pro Cathedral. The call in was seen as a impugn to the former pope secretary.