Deposition (or dismissal, termination, expulsion, firing or dropping out) by political means concerns the removal of a politician or monarch. It may be done by coup, impeachment, invasion, or forced abdication. The term may also refer to the official removal of a clergyman, especially a bishop, from ecclesiastical office.

Deposed head of state or government politicians

Deposed head of state or government monarchs

Deposed politicians and monarchs at subnational level

Deposed politicians at local level

Notable deposed bishops

• Cyril of Alexandria

• Cyril Lucaris

• John Chrysostom

• Nestorius

• Photios I of Constantinople

• Antipope Benedict XIII

• Antipope John XXIII

• The Nine Bishops of the Nonjuring Schism

• Robert Duncan, VII Bishop of Pittsburgh

• Mark Lawrence, XIV Bishop of South Carolina

• John-David Schofield, IV Bishop of San Joaquin

See also

• Coup d'état

• Defrocking

• Motion of no confidence

References