A Nigeria-born Catholic priest has been ex-communicated for allegedly breaching rules of confession secrecy.

Pope Francis ordered that Father Ezinwanne Igbo of Stella Maris parish in Maroochydore, Queensland,Australia ,be axed after a two-year investigation.

The investigation followed a complaint that he breached rules of confession secrecy from 2016.

The Archbishop of Mark Coleridge said in a statement Father Igbo was alleged to have committed a canonical (church) offence.


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