| Proclus had been installed as bishop in the place of a bishop uncanonically thrust out to make room for him. |
| The Ukrainian Church has seceded from the Patriarchate of Moscow where it was placed uncanonically and illegally. |
| In 1833, for example, the Church of Greece unilaterally and uncanonically proclaimed its independence from the patriarch of Constantinople. |
| The same may be said of priests and deacons who uncanonically leave the jurisdiction of their bishop to whom they are bound by their priestly oath of allegiance. |
