CANON 19: OF ORDAINED PERSONS WHO ABANDON THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH

Amended at Provincial Synod 2021

Unfaithful Clergy

If persons in Holy Orders without consent from the Bishop, abandon the exercise of the ordained ministry, or forsake the Communion of the Church, such persons shall not be allowed to resume the exercise of any Ministerial Office in this Church, until they shall have given to the proper authority evidence of the sincerity of their repentance for the fault which they have committed.