Associated Press notes. He then gave up his position as coordinator of the Ribeirao Preto archdiocese, of which São José do Rio Preto is part, but remained bishop.
He said his resignation as coordinator was due to personal considerations.Also, in 2015, he was “accused of taking a large amount of money from the church and giving it to his driver, with whom he allegedly had a romantic relationship,” according to the AP.
He said none of this was true.The Vatican’s process of removing bishops normally takes months or even years, but it acted swiftly in the case of Ferreira, likely because the video was “the final straw” after the previous allegations, the AP reports.