Church bosses have launched an investigation into a vicar's online postings after a complaint was made about swearing and comments about having to go to church on Sunday.
Canon Dr Paul Shackerley, the vicar of Doncaster Minster, used a four-letter word and jokes about "the fizz of tonic in my gin beckoning".
The comments, posted on Facebook earlier this year and reported in today's Yorkshire Post, have prompted a complaint and forced senior clerics to launch an investigation.
Dr Shackerley is set to have a meeting with his boss, the Bishop of Doncaster, to discuss the comments.
The posts begin at around 7pm on a Saturday and say: "I think I will put my feet up. I've done f*** all today other than jazz lesson and visit a friend. I hear the fizz of tonic in my gin beckoning.
"Alas, I have religion tomorrow. At least I'm not preaching this week. Preaching next week at St Mary Abbotts Kensington though. Best make that a good one eh?"
Bishop of Doncaster Peter Burrows said: "We are aware of the complaint and we will be investigating it.
"I think we all know that things like Facebook, Twitter and other social media are immediate ways of communicating 'in the moment'.
"But we do as clergy need to be very conscious of making the distinction between something that might have what I would call a work focus and something that might have a more personal or private focus.
"Obviously for clergy these two lives are often not completely separate, but I will be seeing Paul as soon as I possibly can so that we can talk about what has happened in this case.
"There are a number of quite complex and difficult issues for the church that have been raised by this. They will need to be addressed and we do take seriously the complainants' comments."
The Facebook extracts have been sent, along with an anonymous letter, to senior clergy and other dignitaries in South Yorkshire.
The letter which accompanies the extracts and is also published in today's Yorkshire Post says: "Your priest colleague uses language that most would find abhorrent for a man in his position and pretty distasteful for anyone, as a matter of fact.
"I understand that senior members of the Diocese know of this document, but no action appears to have been taken.
"His present behaviour makes him totally unfit to serve the Minster or the people of Doncaster, and totally unfit to serve the church at all in the opinion of many Doncaster residents."
Dr Shackerley was unavailable for comment.
On Thursday, a female priest has compared the Church of England to an abusive husband following controversial last-minute changes to plans allowing women to be bishops.
The Rev Dr Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, interim principal of Durham University's Ustinov College, branded the Church an "abusive institution" and questioned whether women should stay or flee.