A man who tried to stab a Catholic priest during a service at a Selkirk Avenue church in February has been ordered to stay in a hospital psychiatric ward for at least the next year.

Pawel Olownia, 50 at the time he was arrested, attempted to stab the 38-year-old priest who was on the altar of Holy Ghost Parish during the Feb. 9 Sunday-evening mass.

He was in the grips of the delusional belief he was being persecuted by the Church and the Canadian government, court was told.

A provincial court judge ruled in June he was not criminally responsible for charges of assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and disrupting a religious service.

The judge sent the case to the Criminal Code Review Board, which held a hearing July 28.

The board placed several conditio

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