The Mobile priest and the 2023 high school graduate with whom he left the country for Europe this summer are now married, according to records filed with Mobile County Probate Court.

Alex Crow, 30, and 18-year-old Taylor Victoria Harrison were married last Friday, according to the date on the marriage certificate.

Crow and Harrison, a graduate of McGill-Toolen High School, where Crow had worked as a guest lecturer, left Mobile and traveled to Europe over the summer.

They remained there for roughly four months while both the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office and Mobile County District Attorney’s Office conducted what would ultimately be fruitless investigations into possible wrongdoing by the former priest in the Archdiocese of Mobile.

After learning of Crow’s departure with Harrison, the archdiocese stripped him of his duties, saying he had “abandoned his assignment.”

The news of Crow’s marriage to Harrison prompted a statement from the archdiocese on Wednesday.

The archdiocese says the marriage only confirms Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi’s decision to suspend Crow from his duties as a priest.

“Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi announced in July that he had suspended Alex Crow and prohibited him from acting, dressing, or presenting himself as a priest,” the statement read. “Archbishop Rodi additionally shared in August that he saw no way back to the priesthood for Alex Crow.”

The statement also indicates that Crow will likely be laicized by the Vatican, meaning he would be formally be removed as a member of the clergy.