Father Calvin Robinson was defrocked after serving five months at St. Paul's in Grand Rapids. He came to the U.S. after claiming on his website that England had grown too secular and apathetic.

The Anglican Catholic Church defrocked British priest Calvin Robinson after he made a gesture at the National Pro-Life Summit that critics likened to a Nazi salute.

Rev. Calvin Robinson, Priest-in-charge of the St. Paul's Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) on Lake Michigan Drive in Grand Rapids, is no longer serving as a priest in the church and has had his license in the church revoked.

A Grand Rapids priest was removed from his position in the Anglican Catholic Church on Wednesday after mimicking a gesture recently made by Elon Musk, which has been compared to a Nazi salute.

"Those who mimic the Nazi salute, even as a joke or an attempt to troll their opponents, trivialize the horror of the Holocaust," said the Anglican Catholic Church.

Musk has denied that it was a fascist gesture. In response on his social media platform, X/ Twitter, Musk reshared a post from 2022 where he proclaimed that he would no longer vote Democrat and was waiting for the party’s “dirty tricks”.

Robinson has defended the gesture, with which he concluded his speech at the National Pro-Life Summit last week, as an ‘attempt at dry wit.’

The now-former priest, who’s also a popular far-right British commentator, told the crowd, “The people who understand, cheer… The people who do not, reach for their pitchforks.” Erm!

“Clearly, he has not, and as such, his license in this Church has been revoked. He is no longer serving as a priest in the ACC,” the church said, adding that mimicking the Nazi salute is “harmful, divisive, and contrary to the tenets of Christian charity.”

Calvin Robinson, who was a priest with the Anglican Catholic Church, had his license revoked after making an apparent Nazi salute at a pro-life event.