Bishop suspends order from diocese after priest leaves parish

A South American religious order, the Institute of the Incarnate Word, whose priests had been working in a rural parish in Co Wexford, has been suspended by Bishop Denis Brennan.

This follows the unexplained departure last month from Kilmyshall parish, outside Bunclody, of Argentinian-born Fr Ignacio Mikalonis.

The bishop has called in the Church’s national board for safeguarding children to investigate if the missing priest breached the Diocese of Ferns’s policies on the internet and safeguarding children.