During their annual fall session in Detroit, MI October 19-23, 2015, the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America voted unanimously to depose the retired Archbishop Seraphim from the status and all sacred functions of the episcopacy, remove him from the ranks of the clergy, and return him to the status of a lay monk.
The letter of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon to the Archdiocese of Canada reads as follows.
