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There were also calls from former members of the congregation that he be defrocked.

"I would rather be put in jail than tell a lie to defrock myself," he said.

Notice was given to the clergy involved that they would be defrocked.

The priests have six months to reconsider or risk being defrocked.

In 2009 he was defrocked after accusations of sexual misconduct.

He was defrocked as a minister and not reinstated until 1965.

He resigned his holy orders in 2003 and was later defrocked.

One who has shown disloyalty to the Church should have been defrocked.

In 1984, he was officially defrocked by the church.

He has been defrocked and is now in prison after being convicted of abusing a 10-year-old boy.

Nearly 24 other cases have been turned over to prosecutors, most of those priests retired or already defrocked.

One accused of molestation in the future will be defrocked automatically.

I got myself defrocked for something much less significant."

The three bishops met among themselves and decided to defrock Makarios.

Recently defrocked, alas, but still a good man: I know him well."

It is the kind of activity that gets your dog neutered and public officials defrocked.

He was subsequently dismissed from his order and defrocked.

Because of this, he was defrocked by the Methodists.

Many dissident clerics have been jailed or defrocked by the court.

Newspapers are filled with demands that he be tried or defrocked or both.

The new document said that a priest who tried to ordain a woman could now be defrocked.

Defrocked as a priest since he broke his monastic vows and got married.

Both were convicted and one was defrocked, while the other was suspended from his duties.

Many of the accused priests were forced to resign or were defrocked.

But he has not been defrocked, and he could not be reached for comment.