For context see the Metropolitan Joseph: The Scandal section in our Archives 2020-22 linked at the top of this page. With filial love, respect, and trust we urge Patriarch John to order the immediate removal of the former metropolitan’s image and name from church websites, institutions, letterhead, and liturgical commemoration, and the Holy Synod to depose said individual from holy orders as he himself would have surely done with any simple priest or deacon in similar circumstances. 

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