Anthony Pitts, who has worked at the BBC since 1992, quit after being among the 1.7m who watched the show on BBC Two on Saturday night, saying: "The blasphemy was far, far worse than even the most detailed news reports led me to believe."
The hit musical, which has offended religious groups and has drawn almost 50,000 complaints, ridicules the figure of Jesus on the cross to imply sexual perversion, mocks the stigmata wounds on his body as "acts of crudeness", as well as showing Jesus as a nappy wearer who was a "bit gay."
The alternative opera also features frequent uses of the word "fuck" and a number of uses of the word "c**t".
BBC director general Mark Thompson met personally with Pitts on Monday to persuade the producer to stay, but his efforts were to no avail.
On Saturday, 1,500 protesters, mainly from Christian rights groups, descended on the BBC headquarters to try to have the programme pulled from the schedules.
The BBC refused to back down, arguing that the award-winning musical was a serious work.
A spokeswoman for the BBC said: "It is a serious work. People who can't get to London to see it at the theatre can now see it in their own home."
The broadcast aired on Saturday at 10pm on BBC Two in an uncut airing, which the BBC is describing as a "boundary-breaking show [that] will appeal to all -- except the faint-hearted".
There were warnings about the language contained in the show prior to and during broadcast.
'Jerry Springer: The Opera' was written by composer Richard Thomas and comedian Stewart Lee, and is based on Springer's famed US talkshow.
The show centres on the worst day of Springer's life, when he has to face nappy wearers, a troupe of tap-dancing Ku Klux Klansmen, not to mention Jesus and the Devil in a foul-mouthed tirade against each other.
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