McCarrick’s downfall came in the wake of stunning allegations that first became public in 2018 that he had abused a teen 50 years earlier while serving as a priest in New York.

Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington who was accused of sexually abusing minors and adults, has died, according to a statement by his successor, Cardinal Robert McElroy.

The D.C. archbishop was once a globe-trotting emissary of the Holy See. After the church found him guilty of sexual abuse, he was defrocked in retirement.