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A former high-ranking diplomat from the Holy See’s Washington embassy wanted by Windsor police for allegedly uploading child pornography at a local church has been sentenced to five years in prison by the Vatican.

A Vatican tribunal on Saturday also fined Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella, 51, about $5,800 for possessing and distributing child pornography after a two-day trial considered the first of its kind at the Vatican.

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Windsor police issued a Canada-wide warrant for Capella last September on charges of accessing, possessing and distributing child pornography.

Police said Capella uploaded child porn from a social networking site while visiting “a place of worship” in Windsor during the 2016 Christmas holiday.

Nobody from Windsor Police was immediately available to comment Saturday.

Capella admitted to viewing the images during what he called a period of “fragility” and interior crisis sparked by a job transfer to the Vatican embassy in Washington. He apologized to his family and the Holy See, and appealed for leniency by saying the episode was just a “bump in the road” of a priestly vocation he loved and wanted to continue.