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In 2001, ten years after the abuse ended, she reported it to two bishops.

“The bishop is telling me to stop,” he said in the second video, “And I told him, ‘I’m not going to stop.’

Early in his tenure as Archbishop of Canterbury, he was credited with helping usher through the vote that allowed women to become bishops, being supportive of the move through often tempestuous division.

One survivor said bishops "who kept the stories to themselves" should now be the focus of questioning.

Conservative Sir Gavin Williamson put forward proposals for Church of England bishops to be removed from the Lords but these were rejected by MPs.