NY- No wonder the church ladies love him!
The randy reverend who allegedly confessed to an affair with a blonde from his well-to-do parish keeps himself in tip-top shape, as this exclusive Post photo reveals.
Rev. Thomas Tewell was photographed making the most of his leave from the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church with a morning jog along the boardwalk in Ocean City, N.J.
Tewell, 56, has absented himself from pastoral duties – and from New York – while the city’s Presbyterian administration investigates his purported affair with 42-year-old theology student Rachel Vione.
Ratted out by an unknown churchgoer, the pair are believed to have admitted their tryst to investigators from the New York Presbetery, an oversight body that has yet to decide whether to take disciplinary action.
The toned, trotting pastor has already stepped down as chairman of the board at Princeton Theological Seminary, where Vione was also a student.
The seminary would not respond yesterday to The Post’s request for information about how the leggy blonde was admitted to the exclusive program.
Vione, a former Discovery Channel recruiter, apparently became so drawn by a higher calling that she began to train to become an ordained minister at the seminary.
Vione and the senior pastor are said to have hooked up after the mother of two volunteered with her husband to help out at New York City’s largest Presbyterian church.
Joe Vione is now suing his wife for divorce.