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Bishop Wayne Jones told a troubled parishioner that having sex with him was the only way to purge evil spirits haunting her, his trial heard Wednesday.

“He said the only way he could help me spiritually was to have sex with him,” the woman told Justice Suhail Akhtar.

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“I believed I had to have sex with him. I was feeling weird after a trip to the Barbados,” said the second of four alleged victims — all parishioners who allege Jones assaulted them.

The witness, now 55, said Jones was visiting her tiny west-end rooming-house when they both lay, full clothed, in her bed sometime between Jan. 1, 1993 and Dec. 31, 1996.

“He fondled my breast. I felt his big erection behind my buttocks,” said the woman. None of the alleged victims can be legally identified.

Jones, 57, has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault and other charges.

Another victim — who has yet to testify — alleged Jones sexually assaulted her while performing an exorcism on her between Jan. 1, 1990 and May 1, 2013.