FLORIDA
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The former head priest at St. Leo Catholic Church in Bonita Springs has been removed from the priesthood in the wake of two-year-old charges he mismanaged his duties at the parish, fathered a child and disobeyed the bishop.
Stan Strycharz did not appeal the decision made by a three-judge panel of priests not connected with the Diocese of Venice. Bishop Frank Dewane issued a letter to St. Leo parishioners last weekend explaining the outcome of the canonical trial.
“They declared that Mr. Strycharz no longer has the ‘power, office, function, right, privilege, faculty, favor, title or insignia’ of the ministerial priesthood. This means that he is unable to function anywhere as a priest,” Dewane wrote.
Strycharz had the representation of a lawyer chosen by him, according to Dewane’s letter.
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