A RANDY reverend was fired by the Kirk after a string of sex scandals — including bedding a married worshipper.

Elijah Smith, 32, also romped with his girlfriend’s neighbour, 19, abused his lover and performed a disgusting act in front of an official.

3 The minister 'abused his position'

A shocking Church of Scotland report into the scandal at Queen’s Park Govanhill in Glasgow ruled: “Your conduct amounted to exploitation.”

Smith carried out a lewd act in front of a church worker as they discussed a string of sordid claims against him, the Kirk report revealed.

The brazen reverend pleasured himself in his manse after playing a song on his guitar for the stunned woman.

The bizarre episode, following his suspension amid a raft of complaints about his sleazy behaviour, was among 11 charges upheld by Church of Scotland bosses.

And they blasted him for exploiting “vulnerable” women during his four-year stint at Queen’s Park Govanhill Parish Church in Glasgow.

The Kirk probe concluded: “Your relationships with these women display a concerning pattern of behaviour.

“Each was, in different respects, vulnerable. You conducted inappropriate relationships with them.

“We consider that your conduct towards these women amounted to exploitation of them. It also demonstrates a sexually promiscuous nature.

3 The former Glasgow minister was accused of misconduct by several women Credit: Google Maps

“The behaviour we find proved fell very far below that required of those holding the office of minister.”

The report revealed Smith struck up an affair with a parishioner within days of taking up his post in 2015, meeting her in a pub.

The married woman, who was separated from her husband, told the church committee she was in a “dark place” and “craved healing” — believing “God perhaps wanted her to take this course”.

Smith “abused his position of care and pastoral support” by starting the ten-day affair after he admitted he’d found her “very attractive”.

The randy preacher also had an 18-month affair with his long-suffering girlfriend’s 19- year-old neighbour.

They lived together for a spell and she stayed over at his manse from January 2016.

But they stopped romping by August that year over the teenager’s concerns on sex before marriage.

And a Presbyterial Commission report found the churchman had “inappropriate sexual behaviour” with a pal of his girlfriend he’d contacted on Facebook and sent personal messages about how he hated himself.

They kissed in a boozer and shared a bed at her flat after Smith said he “couldn’t afford a taxi home”.

The report said that he’d offered to sleep on the couch but the woman had suggested sharing the bed without sex.

But she later fondled him then “got on top of him and kissed him”.

3 He has been expelled from the Church of Scotland

The report added: “The respondent had accepted that there would be no sex.

“He then put her on her back and kissed her down her body. She told him to stop and he did so.”

The probe found the minister hadn’t been acting in a “sexual” manner in this case but rapped him for being intimate with her while in a committed relationship.

Kirk chiefs also blasted him after finding he’d branded his partner a “mess, a dog and a failure”.

The American, a St Andrews Uni graduate, further heaped embarrassment on her in public by slating her clothes, behaviour and “stupidity”.

And after the woman, who suspected he was cheating, accused him of lying, Rev Smith replied: “If you want to keep on with that, f*** off.”

The probe slated his “emotional and psychological abusive and bullying behaviour”.

UNHOLY LITANY OF SLEAZE AND SCANDAL REV Smith’s sacking is the latest scandal involving sleazy churchmen. Roddy MacNeil, dubbed Father Flash, was axed by his Barra parish for fathering a child with his cousin amid claims he bedded five other women. He fled the area after the revelations in 2005. Two years ago a reverend was found dead amid claims his wife accused him of seven affairs with churchgoers. Dr Iain D Campbell, 53, had been a senior official at the Western Isles Free Presbytery. In 2010, we told how panto-loving cleric Mike Erskine, 62, had an affair with a B&B owner after conducting her husband’s funeral while a minister at Crail and Kingshorn Parish in Fife. The Rev Alec Shuttleworth, 60, was suspended by the Kirk in 2000 after he was caught paying £60 for sexual activity at a sauna in Kirkcaldy. And Reverend Ian Bradley, 68, had “inappropriate intimate sexual relations” with a wo­man, including a weekend tryst at a cottage in Argyll. His former mistress Gill Toosey wrote a book about their steamy affair and declared: “We were connected in every way.”

Smith was suspended in March after the allegations emerged and was visited by a parish worker who wanted him to consider “stepping away from the church” over the complaints.

But after he denied using porn, he started to play her a tune on his guitar.

The investigation said the woman saw the minister “was visibly aroused and that the position of his hands had changed and that he was fondling himself”.

Rev Smith denied this allegation and told in a blog how his Asperger’s Syndrome meant “all too often I misinterpret what I’m told”.

The preacher — who was ordained in January 2015 — told investigators he felt remorse over the relationship with the 19-year-old.

He said: “I knew that if I was in a relationship that I should not be showing any physical affection let alone sexual expression to any other person. And I also hid these things from her.

“So I experienced regret because I did not believe that those were actions becoming of a minister and I did not believe those were actions that she deserved”.

But Kirk committee members unanimously upheld all claims against him — describing the women who had given evidence as credible and his behaviour “censurable by the Word of God”.

Their findings added: “You must be prevented from acting as a minister and you should not be permitted to resume your calling unless and until you are in a position to demonstrate that you are capable of fulfilling your duties in a proper manner.

“The behaviour proved fell far below that required of those holding the office.”

A Church of Scotland spokeswoman confirmed Smith was axed as minister at a sentencing hearing on May 15.

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Tonight, at his home in Crosshill, Glasgow, he refused to apologise for his actions.

Smith, who was the Kirk’s second youngest minister, told our reporter: “I’m not going to make any comment. I can’t say anything.”

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