After initially resisting calls to step down, he resigned on 12 November saying he did so "in sorrow with all victims and survivors of abuse".

They wailed in sorrow that their city’s saint was about to sail away to foreign lands.

And he said he resigned "in sorrow with all victims and survivors of abuse."

"As I step down I do so in sorrow with all victims and survivors of abuse."

"As I step down I do so in sorrow with all victims and survivors of abuse," he added.