A former Episcopal Church Bishop has been sentenced to seven years in prison for killing a cyclist while intoxicated and failing to immediately return to the scene of the traffic accident.

Heather Cook, who was effectively defrocked this past Spring by Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, had been serving as Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland when the accident occurred. As the second-highest serving official in the diocese, Cook’s previous drunk driving arrest placed the Episcopal Church’s vetting procedures under scrutiny.

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