leading some to contend that modern use of "defrocking" is inaccurate. However, others maintain "defrocking" as a common synonym for laicization, one particularly...

dismissal, defrocking, and degradation) is the removal of a bishop, priest, or deacon from the status of being a member of the clergy. The term defrocking originated...

Defrocked and Kicking the Habit is the second LP by Soltero. It was recorded in Shutesbury, MA by Ben Sterling and Somerville, MA by Steve Mayone. As...

July 3, 2014, until his retirement on September 17, 2022, and subsequent defrocking. In October 2023, Al-Zehlaoui sued the archdiocese for millions of dollars...

church tribunal had ruled that Inzoli should be laicized (defrocked), and he was defrocked in 2012 by Francis's predecessor Benedict. Francis, however...

Hidalgo and some of his soldiers were eventually captured, Hidalgo was defrocked, and they were executed by firing squad on 31 July 1811. The first 35...

with his defrocking. Creech denounced the second trial and did not enter a plea, performing a final ceremony the day before he was defrocked on November...

American actor and screenwriter. He is best known for a recurring role as defrocked priest Matthew "Rickety Cricket" Mara on the FX comedy series It's Always...

Times Patty Machelor Arizona Daily Star (April 2010). "Moreno struggled to defrock 2 priests". Arizona Daily Star. Wakin, Daniel J. (10 April 2010). "Do Popes...

"nontraditional faiths", such as Jehovah's Witnesses, by followers of the defrocked Orthodox priest Basil Mkalavishvili. In addition to traditional religious...

reduced to a lower rank for misconduct Degradation, the former ceremony of defrocking a disgraced priest Degradation, a song by the Violent Femmes, from Add...

"human dignity". After the gesture of defiance, the court recommended his defrocking, its decision being soon after confirmed by the synod. In the meantime...

deliver to find out what it contains and discovers that she is being defrocked. Because of this, Indika decides to go with Ilya to see the Kudets. The...

2021. Bingham, John (13 July 2015). "Church of England could return to defrocking rogue priests after child abuse scandals". The Daily Telegraph. Archived...

the royalist army in Temalaca, Puebla. He was tried by the Inquisition, defrocked as a cleric, and executed by civil authorities in San Cristóbal Ecatepec...

Monk Seraphim (born Kenneth William Storheim) is a defrocked hierarch for the Orthodox Church in America. During 1990–2010 he served as head of the Archdiocese...

defrocking". the Guardian. Retrieved 14 December 2020. Sisman, Adam. (2019). The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking....

a Sunday Sermon Crunch". Christianity Today. Retrieved 23 June 2017. "Defrocking of Minister Widens Split Over Gays". New York Times. 2013-12-19. Retrieved...

accused of patronizing a prostitute. He was suspended and ultimately defrocked by the Assemblies of God. Three years later, Swaggart was implicated in...

C. Singh as moderator of the Church of North India following Singh's defrocking and charges of money laundering. As moderator, Nayak is one of the primates...

(UOC-KP) came into existence, being founded by members of the Russian Church defrocked for insubordination, alongside support with the Ukrainian émigré community...

Charles II and his wife, Catherine of Braganza, to produce any children. A defrocked Anglican clergyman, Titus Oates, spoke of a "Popish Plot" to kill Charles...

when in 1987 evangelist Jim Bakker, founder of PTL and Heritage USA, was defrocked for having an affair with church secretary Jessica Hahn years earlier...

this penalty is a table of salvation for them." Loss of clerical state Defrocking What does it actually mean for a priest to be ‘laicized’? (Catholic News...

published a report blaming Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI for allowing defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick to rise in power despite the fact that...

property, and is increasingly desperate to sell it. Dr. Gomez O'Peele: a defrocked orthopedic surgeon, one of Nicholas Stripling's "employees" in his Medicare...

those who have been accused of chargeable offenses that can result in defrocking or revocation of membership. The annual conference, roughly the equivalent...

excommunication, to the charge of opposing the inquisitions, and was defrocked and sentenced to life in prison, in chains, in solitary confinement, and...

John Wesley Fletcher (January 24, 1940 – June 21, 1996) was an American defrocked Assemblies of God pastor, known for his role in the PTL scandal involving...

massive and not well organized. Hidalgo was captured by royalist forces, defrocked from the priesthood, and executed in July 1811. The second phase of the...