In 2015, after declaring he was homosexual and in a relationship, he was suspended a divinis from his position as a Catholic priest and removed from all his previous posts in the Roman Curia.

Two days before it opened, he announced he was gay in an interview in Polish for a film then in production, Article Eighteen, a documentary about the campaign for same-sex marriage in Poland.

I'm prepared to pay the consequences, but it's time the Church opened its eyes, and realised that offering gay believers total abstinence from a life of love is inhuman.

[14] On 21 October, Bishop Ryszard Kasyna of Pelplin, the diocese in which Charamsa was ordained, suspended him a divinis from the priesthood, forbidding him to perform the sacraments or wear clerical garb.

He called for all statements from the Holy See that are offensive and violent against gay people to be withdrawn, citing the policy put in place by Pope Benedict XVI's in 2005 that forbids men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies from becoming priests.

He said: "If the Church can't make a serious, scientific reflection on homosexuality and include it in its teachings, even the Holy Father's openings and warm words on gays are empty."

He quoted Cardinal Robert Sarah, who told the Synod: "What Nazi-Fascism and Communism were in the 20th century, Western homosexual and abortion ideologies and Islamic fanaticism are today."

[22] Bishop Ryszard Kasyna suspended Charamsa, revoking his faculties to celebrate Mass, administer the sacraments, and wear a cassock or any priestly attire.

The reason given was his failure to abide by the rules of priestly conduct, following an earlier official warning, according to a statement on the website of the Diocese of Pelplin.