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Finland’s Father Mitro Repo – who apart from being a Finnish Orthodox priest is also a Finnish Social Democratic party candidate in upcoming EU elections - may be facing de-frocking and excommunication for his political ambitions.
According to Helsingin Sanomat, Repo has been summoned to a meeting of the Council of Bishops of the Orthodox Church to answer charges under two sections of canonic law from the second and fifth centuries stipulating that a bishop, presbyter, or deacon of the church cannot take on worldly tasks, on pain of removal from his post.
