Colin Pritchard changed his name to Ifor Whittaker after he was handed a five-year sentence at Northampton Crown Court in 2008 after admitting abusing two children in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, between 1979 to 1983.
The 73-year-old was jailed for 16 years at Hove Crown Court on Thursday after being found guilty of abusing a third boy between 1987 and 1991 while he was the vicar of Sedlescombe in East Sussex, police said.
He was convicted of seven offences including inciting the child, aged between 10 and 14, to commit gross indecency and buggery.
A jury also found him guilty of conspiring with fellow vicar, close friend and convicted paedophile Roy Cotton to commit acts of indecency.
The pair had already been arrested by Sussex Police in 1997 on suspicion of sexually abusing children and were released on bail.
Cotton retired in 1999 and the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case. He died in 2006.
These details emerged in a critical independent report by Roger Meekings in 2012 which revealed how Cotton had been convicted of indecent behaviour with a child in 1954 while training for the priesthood.
He was thrown out of theological college but then readmitted and ordained in 1966 – the same year he attended with Pritchard.
It was also in 2012 that the force began investigating this latest case, after the victim said he was sexually assaulted by Cotton when he…
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