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VATICAN CITY \u2014 Pope Francis has formally accepted the resignation of Germany’s controversial bishop of Limburg, the Vatican said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n

Franz-Peter Terbartz-van Elst, nicknamed the “bling bishop” by the international media, had been under fire for his luxury lifestyle and was indefinitely relieved of his clerical duties by Francis last year.<\/p>\n\n

The Roman Catholic bishop had faced outrage over an ostentatious building project at his official residence, which included a museum, conference halls, a chapel and private apartments, in the ancient town of Limburg in central Hesse state.<\/p>\n\n

The project was initially valued at 5.5 million euros ($7.5 million) but the cost ballooned to 31 million euros, including a 783,000 euro garden and a 15,000 euro bathtub — using the revenue from a religious tax in Germany.<\/p>\n\n

He had also come under fire for lying under oath about flying first class to visit slum dwellers in India.<\/p>\n\n

Tebartz-van Elst, 53, had told a journalist with the Hamburg-based news weekly Der Spiegel that “we flew business class”, but then in sworn testimony denied having said those words.<\/p>\n\n

However, the reporter had videotaped him making the comment and the embattled bishop settled the court case with a 20,000 euro payment in November.<\/p>\n\n

The scandal sparked calls for greater transparency in Catholic Church finances, a reform aim of the new pope who has called for a “poor Church for the poor”.<\/p>\n\n

The Vatican said Tebartz-van Elst would be transferred to another post, without specifying which.<\/p>\n\n

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