By Aiyeku Timothy
A priest, identified as Rev Zuhlsdorf, who live-streamed himself performing exorcisms of alleged election fraud in 3 November’s presidential election, has been relieved from his post at a Roman Catholic diocese in Wisconsin.
This is after the Diocese of Madison, earlier this month, announced that the parish and reverend John Zuhlsdorf had reached a mutual decision on the conservative priest leaving his post.
In a statement accompanying the announcement, Madison Catholic Diocese bishop Donald Hying said that Rev Zuhlsdorf had left his post to “to pursue other opportunities.”
“The Bishop of Madison is grateful to the Reverend Zuhlsdorf for his faithful support of the diocese’s seminarians and priests, thanks him for his many years of steadfast ministry serving the diocese, and wishes him the best in his future endeavours,” the diocese added
Earlier on, Rev Zuhlsdorf live-streamed on YouTube multiple exorcisms of alleged election fraud. The videos have since been deleted from the video-sharing platform.
In one of the live-streams, Rev Zuhlsdorf said: “I think it’s amply clear, there’s enough evidence to demonstrate that there was fraud in some places, and people had to commit that fraud, it didn’t happen by itself.”
Rev Zuhlsdorf, who is a popular traditionalist priest, claimed that he got permission from bishop Hying to perform the exorcisms but the claim has been dismissed as untrue by the Bishop.
The Lincoln Journal Star reported on Tuesday that Mr Zuhlsdorf believed in the false claims peddled by former President Donald Trump and his allies that there was widespread fraud in 3 November’s national election in favour of the Democrats.
