A former bishop has been jailed for sexually abusing a boy for five years while he was a priest.
Anthony Pierce, who was bishop of Swansea and Brecon between 1999 and 2008, pleaded guilty to five counts of indecent assault on a child under the age of 16.
The abuse happened from 1985 until 1990, while Pierce was a parish priest in West Cross, Swansea, but the Church in Wales said the allegations did not emerge until 2023 when the victim reported it to a safeguarding officer.
At Swansea Crown Court on Wednesday, Pierce was sentenced to four years and one month in prison.
In 2002, Pierce was made a commander of the order of St John, and in 2010 a knight of the order of St John, an honour conferred to show “exceptional” charitable service in hospital settings and for those in need.
St John Ambulance said he was no longer a member of the order.
