DEFROCKING
Defrocking
To defrock, unfrock, or laicize ministers or priests is to remove their rights to exercise the functions of the ordained ministry. This may be due to criminal convictions, disciplinary matters, or disagreements over doctrine or dogma. It may also be voluntarily for personal reasons . Various Christian denominations have different procedures for doing this. While the functional meaning is the same, "defrocking" carries implications of forced laicization for misconduct, while "laicization" implies no judgement either way and may be initiated by the request of a priest to be released from vows.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Defrocking
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