Bishop Palmer, Pope’s Pentecostal Friend Dies

The Pentecostal bishop who used his iPhone to film a video of Pope Francis addressing other Pentecostals died July 20 after a motorcycle accident.

 

Bishop Tony Palmer, whom Pope Francis referred to as his friend, was riding the motorcycle when he crashed head-on with a car traveling in the wrong lane, according to Ian Findlay, principal of Embassy Bible College in Bath, England.

 

Bishop Palmer, a member of the independent Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches, “was airlifted to (the) hospital and was in (the operating) theater for 10 hours, but the doctors could not save him,” Findlay told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview July 21.

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