Holy smoke! Gaffe makes vicar an internet star
Last updated at 15:23 05 February 2007
Video: A vicar who accidentally set fire to his sermon while at the pulpit has become an unlikely internet star.
Canon Dr Graham Kings, 53, blew out the
flames before quipping to his startled 400-strong congregation "God said 'Let there be light'".
The vicar, from St Mary's Church in Islington, north London, received a round of applause for his joke and has won thousands of new admirers online.
Over 12,000 people have watched the clip on trendy video-sharing website YouTube alone.
The gaffe was filmed on a camcorder by the church's 18-year-old sound engineer Thomas Wright.
At the time, the vicar was highlighting the plight of orphans with AIDS in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa.
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