≪Deprive of Monasticism and... Send... to the Places of Previous Dwellings≫ by Nechaeva Marina

“…Only the investigations performed in 1730s and the subsequent harsh measures of defrocking, fining, public punishment and exiles along with the established mechanism for reporting and control of the vows made monasteries to fulfill the edicts. …”
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Ousting the Cypriot <i>Ethnarch</i>: President Makarios’ Struggle against the Greek Junta, Cypriot Bishops, and Terrorism by Şevki Kıralp, Ahmet Güneyli

“…The three bishops summoned the Holy Synod and defrocked the Archbishop as he refused to resign his presidency. …”
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SHADES OF VENICE IN THE BIOGRAPHY OF HEGUMEN PALLADY ROGOVSKY by Alex YASTREBOV

“…One of the most informative documents found among those relating to his ordination and addressed to the Roman Curia is the letter of a Russian Catholic, the deacon (later defrocked) Petr Artem’ev, in which Artem’ev revealed that Rogovsky already had converted to Roman Catholicism before he left Russia. …”
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"...You wanted to take me instead of your wife and his own legal wife...": to the question of extramarital relations of the parish Orthodox clergy of the Orenburg diocese of the se... by A. Fot

“…According to the "Statute of Spiritual Consistories", clerics were supposed to be defrocked and excluded from the ranks of the clergy for adultery. …”
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Body of Wood by Pierre Michon, Erik Noonan

“…Perhaps it wasn’t truly the clown that he played so much as the monk, and not just to the stands, but in his own eyes and to himself: he was not only a defrocked friar with the guys or on the street; he donned the silk babouches when he went home too. …”
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