defrocking

He gave up his religious studies to study law and get married, but never actually became a priest, so there was no defrocking.

The charge came eight years after a similar accusation led to his defrocking as an Episcopal priest.

Many years later, in 2001, he voluntarily requested to have his name dropped from membership for reasons which seem to be unrelated to his defrocking.

It decided to annul the defrocking of Makarios, and to call the three bishops to audience so they could express their views.

After the gesture of defiance, the court recommended his defrocking, its decision being soon after confirmed by the synod.

In the end, the Synod decided to overturn the defrocking, but Ghenadie was no longer fighting for recognition.

'We're now looking at standardising the whole thing and that could well involve the defrocking of Reverend Green.'

He also denied involvement in McAlinden's transfer to Western Australia or his defrocking.

Due to his defrocking, he was acclaimed by his fellow countrymen as being a victim of discrimination, which helped launch his political career.

Phothirak sidestepped the defrocking by abandoning his yellow robes for white ones and refraining from calling himself a monk.

His complaints initiated investigations which led to the Rector's trial on charges of immorality and his eventual defrocking in 1932.

The draft of the bishops' policy calls for immediate suspension and eventual defrocking of any priest who sexually abuses a minor from now on.

Philip of Moscow, in particular, decried many abuses of Ivan the Terrible, who eventually engineered his defrocking and murder.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has also said the defrocking does not have any validity, and is not recognized by any Orthodox Church.

Hidalgo was turned over to the bishop of Durango, Francisco Gabriel de Olivares, for an official defrocking and excommunication on 27 July 1811.

Amid frequent death threats and warnings of his imminent defrocking by Bishop Aramburu, he retreated briefly to Los Toldos in April.

This is the first official biography of Dr Desmond Ford with Hook charging the church hierarchy with calumny during Ford's defrocking.

The priests, who want to be known as the Connecticut Six, have been fighting censure and punitive measures, otherwise known as inhibition, which could lead to their defrocking.

Worse, she had no idea how Jackson might feel about serving on an infidel's staff-particularly when that infidel had just been involved in the politically charged defrocking of another priest.

The Vatican must now decide whether to accept the order's reluctance to discipline the two nuns or undertake its own punitive action, such as ordering the defrocking of the nuns.

The uprising started in the summer of 1668, when the high-ranking clergy of the monastery rose in opposition to Patriarch Nikon's ecclesiastic reform soon after his defrocking.

On March 29, Bishop Smith notified the six rectors that they had "abandoned the communion of this Church," a canon offense punishable by removal and possible defrocking.

Last month, the bishop notified the priests that a diocesan committee had found them to have "abandoned the communion" of the church, an offense punishable by suspension and possible defrocking.

A first order issued by the Jingijimuka on April 1868 ordered the defrocking of shasō and bettō (shrine monks performing Buddhist rites at Shinto shrines).

The Sacristy, as the Church's highest governing body, had every legal right to act as it had, yet the defrocking of a priest could not but be the gravest of steps.