Retirement
In 2009, Osborne requested retirement and announced to his local clergy that he would retire at the end of November, giving as his own reasons his age and desire to spend more time with his family. A council of the archdiocese, however, moved this retirement forward without explanation to 12 October 2009, announcing at the same time that he was relieved with immediate effect from all 'pastoral, liturgical and administrative responsibilities'.
Osborne's retirement from active ecclesiastical office was accompanied by a retirement as rector of the Parish of the Annunciation in Oxford. The episcopal vicariate that he had formerly headed was changed to the status of a deanery within the archdiocese.
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