The following men have been Removed from the Sacred Ministry of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church, Utrecht Succession, Archdiocese by formal canonical action of The Most Reverend Joseph A Vellone, D.D., Metropolitan Archbishop of California. These men are not to be considered as, nor accorded the recognition as clerics of any rank or order. They have been reduced to the state of the laity and have lost all faculties to perform any sacramental function of any nature whatsoever. They have been prohibited from using any clerical titles or offices and incur by any and every violation of these sanctions and censures further canonical crimes and censures.