Metropolitan’s Decree<\/p>\n
February 23, 2013<\/p>\n
No. 2-28-13<\/p>\n
In\u00a0 view of his violations of the canons by disrespect of the person of the Patriarch and other members of the Hierarchy, lengthy absences from his\u00a0parish in Hobart, Tasmania, causing spiritual neglect of the faithful of his church community, and the constant inflammatory and unedifying\u00a0 negative comments which he publicly broadcasts within the religious media, bringing disrepute to the Orthodox witness of the Western Rite\u00a0 movement, Hieromonk Michael (Mansbridge-Wood)<\/strong>, cleric of the Australian\u00a0and New Zealand Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of\u00a0Russia, is hereby suspended and relieved of all his priestly duties and\u00a0obligations concerning the Western Rite in the United Kingdom and\u00a0elsewhere, and is retired from active service in the Church.<\/p>\n Given the above, any and all blessings for his websites are hereby withdrawn.<\/p>\n +Hilarion<\/p>\n Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Metropolitan’s Decree February 23, 2013 No. 2-28-13 In\u00a0 view of his violations of the canons by disrespect of the person of the Patriarch and other members of the Hierarchy, lengthy absences from his\u00a0parish in Hobart, Tasmania,Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,7],"tags":[130],"class_list":["entry","author-protodak","has-more-link","post-7603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-articles","category-diocesan-news","category-english","tag-metropolitans-decree"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7603"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7607,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions\/7607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}