FLORIDA
Naples Daily News
By TRACY X. MIGUEL
Posted October 24, 2012
BONITA SPRINGS — A once-popular priest at St. Leo’s Catholic Church in Bonita Springs has been removed from the priesthood.
Bishop Frank Dewane, of the Catholic Diocese of Venice Florida, told parishioners the news in a letter inserted in the Saturday evening and Sunday bulletins.
The statement announced that the canonical trial for 47-year-old former Bonita Springs priest Stan Strycharz concluded that he had “violated his fiduciary responsibilities to the Parish, his priestly promise to celibacy, and his promise of obedience to his Ordinary.”
“Having considered both mitigating and aggravating circumstances, we hereby declare that the accused is herewith dismissed from clerical state,” the judges stated about their decision in a letter issued by Dewane. The nonpublic, canonical trial consisted of a three-judge panel of priests who were all experienced canonical experts from outside the Diocese of Venice.
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