The performance of a navjote in Toronto this May by a mobedyar has raised the hackles of The North American Mobeds Council (NAMC). They state that mobedyars may perform only basic ecclesiastical ceremonies, the navjote not being among them.
The association no doubt wants to preserve its priestly traditions while at the same time safeguarding the birth given turf of the priests. The names of the NAMC office bearers listed on their website all have the prefix "Ervad” indicating they were born of an athornan father and underwent the navar initiation ceremony. Their membership form requires both the date and place......