Well, it’s starting to hit the fan, folks.
Jerome Dimitriou, former Executive Director of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, was arrested Monday on embezzlement charges of over half a million dollars, even as the church was running out of money trying to rebuild St. Nicholas.
Dimitriou appeared in U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert W. Lehrburger’s Manhattan courtroom to answer two counts of wire fraud, each carrying a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
Dimitriou is currently free on a $150,000 bail, which frankly makes no sense given he could hightail it out of here and spend the rest of his days basking in the Mediterranean sun.
As you all may recall, Dimitriou was the Executive Director of the GOA from 2000 to 2017. There was a parting of the ways but not before Dimitriou accused anybody and everybody, up to and including Archbishop Demetrios, of putting their hands in the till and pocketing all the money. However, as far as the Archdiocese is concerned, they have and will continue to remain, “committed to full transparency with its faithful and with governmental authorities, and will continue to cooperate fully with them.”
Everyone deserves his day in court but it doesn’t look good for Dimitriou. Frankly, it looks even worse for the GOA. Although the amount is expected to increase, $500,000 doesn’t compare to being $40,000,000 in arrears to the St Nicholas Shrine and $17,000,000 in the hole for payouts toward sexual misconduct disputes over the last twenty years. However, the GOA’s greatest fear may be that prosecutors will persuade Dimitriou to tell investigators where all the bodies are buried. His case could be the lynchpin for the larger investigation regarding St. Nicholas Shrine. If the GOA really wanted Dimitriou’s case to come to trial, you ‘d think they’d have asked for a much larger bail and insisted on an ankle bracelet but they didn’t. Perhaps the GOA is also hoping Dimitriou will go quietly into the night to parts unknown. They’ve got to know he’s a serious flight risk and when your back is against the wall, forfeiting $150,000 could seem appealing. Taking this one step further, not having Dimitrou around to testify would also be appealing, very appealing, especially to the GOA.
This trial may never see the light of day.
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Below please find an updated article from today in The National Herald.
Jerry Dimitriou Arrested and Charged with Two Embezzlement Schemes (Adds)
By Theodore Kalmoukos
November 27, 2019
https://www.thenationalherald.com/271082/jerry-dimitriou-arrested-and-charged-with-two-embezzlement-schemes-adds/
George the miracle is not why so many have left the Church but why so many of us are still there??
Despair and coercion are the prime reasons folks lose faith, but liturgical religions keep non-believers with pastoral suasion. Many who don’t believe go for because the people they know are there. It is a social club. A lot of Greeks in big cities go just in time for the “Our Father” so they can stay for coffee. This was especially true of the pompous ones who were calling for Demetrius to resign. They view the collection tray as payment for coffee. Western faiths increasingly trim down their church time, while Greeks just trim it themselves by coming late.
2019 isn’t turning out to be a very good year for the Jeromes.
Requests for higher bail and electronic monitoring were denied by the court. Such requests would ordinarily come from the prosecuting authorities. What is missing from this story is where were the Archdiocese chancellors during those 17 years (there were at least 2)? They are next in line after the Archbishop. Then comes Jerry Dimitriou. Also, if the staff that obeyed Dimitriou’s orders to add unauthorized salary and were aware of the credit card misuse, knew that both were illegal and did not report it they are possibly co-conspirators and accessories after the fact. Just sayin’ because I’m not a lawyer.
The Archdiocese still has not said where the St. Nicholas money went. Surely someone knows. And if this wasn’t discovered by all those audits we keep hearing about…..well, perhaps they weren’t complete audits, or not good audits, or the results are being hidden by those in the know.
I’m sure if our honest accountant went to Greece he could be got back given change of government. Probably high tail it to north Cyprus, !!!!! Yannisary!! And he DID NOT act alone did he???
Re all the stuff on Ukraine from the university and think tanks and rest, they all of course supportive of events. NO SURPRISE THERE THEN,
But surprised the rest of Church minus who has, has not fallen in line.
What is facinating is that none of them but one i read, mentioned the self consecrated status of one lot and the defrocked laymen on other, restored with a signature. With all due respect even our esteemed Joseph is quiet on that one or drawing false parrellel.
It has to be said CLEARLY AND LOUDLY that Phanar has made a mockery and pretense of Orthodox sacramental theology, let alone papal type attitude now with USA satrap elpidophoros becoming dogma.
THIS IS KEY PROBLEM. If they are valid clergy etc. Then our Orthodox sacraments are a load of cobblers, as they say in Uk, forgive my courseness, but they become a farce. A form of empty words.
I, and I know I will get flak on this, am not enthoused by any third Rome ideology, it’s all a betrayal of Christ and ends not well, and, yes I know it was not asked for, but if Moscow gave autocephaly it would pull the rug from under bart and the schismatics in one go. Yes for those ultra nationalistic Ukrainians it would never be good enough, we know that, but the russophobes would be confounded. Anyway we are where we are.
It’s facinating that they attack Russian church for nationalism, YET DEMAND A UNATIONALISTIC UKRAINIAN CHURCH AUTONOMOUS TO MOSCOW to disapear, AND to be replaced by a ultra nationalistic one. Obviously not every nationalism is equal.
Above and beyond genuine Ukrainian moderates DESIRE for their own Church as they see it, and you american Orthodox can understand that one, , it’s obvious that this whole thing has been driven by neo liberal Campaign to break the Russian church and have in Ukraine a body that will be singing the current hit songs of LBQWZ ETC ETC ETC!!! AND ANTI -RUSSIAN EVERYTHING. if it is raining, it’s Russia. What ever.!!
What should worry us is the revelation that it seems the Orthodox Church is woefully lacking in bishops with vertebrae, let alone faith. OH AKA Ieronimos, THEY LOVE THE SOFT SEATS, as they said of Soviet nomenclatura, BUT BEARING WITNESS, FORGET IT!
Facinating even friend Denisenko knows Phanar deceived them. Beware of Greeks bearing a Tomos!!! ?
Very good points!
TO ALL: HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Glory to God for all things
And hope u did George and every one. Our thanks giving memories are of greek and Mexican friends thanksgiving meal in Chicago. We still working of the calories.
Seriously?! Questions should have been asked over the last couple of years…why is it taking so very, very long to finish The St. Nicholas Shrine? Where is the money? Seriously?! I was in New York for a friend’s wedding a few years ago…went to Ground Zero…checked out the Shrine (still under construction, but with no workers in sight), and asked my friend, who attended a local Greek Church…why is this thing taking so long to build? His answer, “You know, many of us are asking the same question!” The truth speaks volumes, I guess!
When we were in NY as visitors seeing friends, it was just an eye sore. A New Yorker friend asked why they could not have just rebuilt the Original church and called it a memorial church and had a memorial garden and chapel?
I had a gut feeling the St. Nicholas church would turn into a fiasco. In the summer of 2008 a series of events took place on the week of june 20, 2008. The construction of the entire WTC project was proceeding slowly and the governor of NY had previously asked for a detailed report outlining the reasons for the construction delays. On June 20, 2008 at the Cathedral of St. Paul’s in NY an icon of St Nicholas began profusely weeping myrrh. The report was officially released within a day or two of this miraculous event. The key takeway of the report was the necessity to take over the St. Nicholas property to build an underground bomb proof garage. Within a month (July 2008) a deal was struck and the Archdiocese swapped the small piece of church property for a larger piece of land but one they could not afford as the church would have to be a national ecumenical shrine. While this flew over everyone head, call me superstitious I did not view this as a random coincidence, that the report calling for the confiscation of St.Nicholas property coincided with a miraculous icon of St. Nick to shed tears 30 miles away..
https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/stories-legends/modern-miracles/weeping-icons/weeping-icon-hempstead
https://www.google.com/amp/s/observer.com/2008/07/port-authority-st-nicholas-church-reach-ground-zero-deal/amp/
The reason it is taking so long to build St Nicholas is that it should have never been built in the first place. St Nicholas is not a church but a monument to Hellenism. It is an effort on behalf of Greeks to demonstrate that they have arrived and that they are part of the American landscape, an expression of the Greek-American success story? It is the GOA’s Tower of Babel.A simple church serving the indigent population of NYC would have been pleasing to our Lord.
Jk, you nailed it. The Shrine is a perennial testament to the round failure that is GOARCH and its Fener. The only thing that remains to do now is the MP build a massive and splendid cathedral nearby in a matter of months, and give it to the OCA as a new headquarters.
Yup. All of Calatrava’s projects are known to have massive over runs. Imagine if the church to be built at Ground Zero was a copy of the Chapel at Holy Cross – an authentic reproduction of the 11th century Church of the Holy Apostles in Athens (and for which the original architectural plans still exist) – instead of the nuclear power plant the Archbishop insisted be designed by Calatrava?
The GOA wants to eliminate the WTC church when they discovered it was built by the czars. It makes them look real bad.
One of our ‘resident’ attorneys can correct me, but unless I am mistaken $150,000 bail equates to only $15,000 bond actually paid out of pocket to a bail bondsman who assumes the risk of the accused becoming a bail-jumper.
Maximus, that’s a very good one:
“The Saints fought on behalf of truth and dogmas, we fight on behalf of dioceses, jurisdictions and titles”.
So true, isn’t it? What’s also interesting is that fights of all kinds are breaking out and people are bringing them into the Church. It reminds me of those old westerns where two cowboys are taking swings at each other outside a bar and then one of them takes it from the street into the bar by falling through the louvered doors. From the State Department to the LGBT. . . movement, everyone is bringing their problems into the Church with the expectation that the Church must change to accommodate them.
I was part of a committee that tried to set out some new project for the parishes. All we got is questions if we were personally benefiting and why the parishes needed something so specific after all. Rumor has it many GOA parishes around NYC have so many plumbing problems because the AHEPA plumbers cannibalize the parts. I know other contractors installed stuff which had been banned but claimed it was grandfathered and they got them cannibalized from other work sites. There is not a single honest transaction in the entire archdiocese.
The GOA sounds just like the Catholic Church. No wonder they want to unite so bad.
Below please find an article from this past Monday on the Authentic Transparency and Accountability website. Also take note of the comment section below the article.
Monday, November 25, 2019
FIREWORKS BEGIN: Jerry Dimitriou is Free to Give More Names
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/11/jerry-dimitriou-is-free-to-give-more.html?m=1
Below please find an article from this past Tuesday on the Authentic Transparency and Accountability website. Also take note of the comment section below the article.
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Do Not Be Fooled, Again
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/11/do-not-be-fooled-again.html?m=1
Michael Jaharis was subsidizing most of Dimitriou’s salary.
Alitheia1875! Just how much was Dmitrio’s salary. ? Just how much dough do monks with vovs of celibacy, and POVERTY, actually need???
Do they receive more than a married priest with family?
Jaharis was subsidizing Jerry Dimitriou’s salary, not Archbishop Demetrios’ salary. Dimitriou’s salary was thought to be in the neighborhood of north of $200,000, perhaps much more.
Here is an article on priest pay
https://www.thenationalherald.com/28490/report-what-are-orthodox-priests-paid/
and here’s how much was paid for pedaresty suits
https://www.thenationalherald.com/189189/demetriou-archdiocese-paid-17-million-pederasty-victims-priests/
Good God. I will go and tell that to a bulgarian FAMILY managing on 800 leva a month, about $500!! Even allowed for different cost of living here it’s barely getting by.
My retired university lecturer bulgarian teacher has a 300 leva pension for month. We spend that plus on food alone weekly. . Or a uk working family and tell them he wants to talk about God. Let alone u guys in USA. It SICKENED me
What does a monk need that wealth for.( Kyril too!! Please note and not alone.) If Sex is bringing down rc church. It’s money for us. AM I THE ONLY ONE SEEING THE EDIFICE IS WROTTEN, WROTTEN, CORRUPT???
Iakovos had a house in Rye NY where he remained until death. Spyridon had archbishop’s quarters built into the Archdiocese where Demetrius also resided. THAT construction project left a lot of mysterious disappearing property and funds, including the pensions, however. There is a full time chef who feeds the Archdiocese at their desks according to fasting rules. Demetrius early tenure was reduced largely to fundraising.
Archbishop Demetrios lived (and perhaps still does) in a high end apartment. Archbishop Iakovos willed his house to the Archdiocese. It was sold and it seems the money disappeared.
In March 2018, the National Herald reported that Archbishop Demetrios declared he was homeless and poor and didn’t have any money, “except enough for his burial.”
He also said he didn’t know anything about the financial problems of the Archdiocese, which interestingly, “contradicts the January 24, 2018 letter ousted Executive Director and close confidant Jerry Dimitriou wrote, stating Demetrios was the one making the decisions.”
Knowing what we now know about Dimitriou, I think there is reason to believe Archbishop Demetrios.
https://www.thenationalherald.com/194075/archbishop-demetrios-says-hes-homeless-and-poor/
Sure enough, Advanced Background Checks says:
Demetrios C Trakatellis Age 91
Lives in: New York NY
Used to live:220 E 79th St, APT 19B, New York, NY 10075-12531049 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028-0115
Thanks for the information, Lemo. Looks like he no longer lives in the apartment which is modest by my standards. (See Below) That it was expensive is just a given. It’s NY. Due to his advanced age, it doesn’t seem outrageous that he would have deacons driving him around or managing his credit cards. At this point, he may very well be “homeless” and “poor.” He angered Bartholomew when he wouldn’t retire and Bartholomew tends to cut people off who make him angry. Frankly, I think Archbishop Demetrios stayed on to put a firewall around us for as long as he could. He’s guilty of poor financial oversight, to be sure, but he was a spiritual leader, not a CPA. He shouldn’t have to worry about the people around him stealing money. If Dimitriou pointed the finger at the Archbishop when he was the one embezzling money, he is despicable. The $300,000 severance package was probably in Dimitriou’s contract.
Here is another apartment in the same building: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/220-E-79th-St-APT-3B-New-York-NY-10075/2117535954_zpid/
Gail, at the end of the day a leader’s entire career is often encapsulated in one sentence.
For presidents of the US, it usually goes like this:
Lincoln, he fought the Civil War and saved the Union,
Woodrow Wilson, he got us into WWI,
FDR, he got us out of the Depression and won WWII,
Truman, he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan,
JFK, he started the space program,
Reagan, he defeated the Evil Empire, etc.
These are not always fair and if negative, they leave out certain nuances and context, but that’s what it usually boils down to.
With Arb Demetrios, I believe (hope actually) that it will boild down to what you wrote: “He prevented the EP from taking over America.”
I dunno, what do y’all think?
Sounds good to me!
Now a group suing the newspaper for calling them Diaspora has uncovered the expat minister and Herald owner has false degrees
Wow.
Below please find an article from yesterday in The National Herald.
Antonis Diamataris on the Truth, Slanders and Manipulations
By Antonis H. Diamataris
December 20, 2019
https://www.thenationalherald.com/275288/antonis-diamataris-on-the-truth-slanders-and-manipulations/
So, let me get this straight:
Diamataris was challenged because he said he had an MBA from Columbia. He later modified his statement and said he earned it but the school withheld it because he couldn’t pay his fees. One doesn’t have an MBA if one never received a diploma. If it was a matter of paying his school fees you would think the publisher of The National Herald would have been able to take care of it during the last 43 years. Without a degree, he didn’t graduate. Because more than 40 years have passed since the completion of his degree requirements, he maintains it will take some time to “solidify” the diploma.” In other words, it’s going to take a while for Columbia to determine if he can graduate at this late juncture, probably because he hasn’t met current requirements. Diamataris doesn’t have a degree from Columbia and he didn’t graduate.
Diamataris claims that because he didn’t have access to a website, he is not responsible for his credentials being removed. He could have asked that they be removed which would accomplish the same result.
Diamataris hired a man by the name of Filippakos who has a trial pending with the Greece Supreme Court. There has been a motion to dismiss. A motion to dismiss does not require a trial, as he has indicated. The fact that previous charges didn’t stick does not mean Filippakos has been cleared of wrongdoing. Filippakos is facing charges that he defrauded the Greek state and Diamataris hired him anyway.
Diamataris acknowledged you can’t be a politician and own a business so he said he removed his name from the National Herald’s mastheads and web sites. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t still own the business.
I wonder how anyone can take this man seriously. I will never read an article in the National Herald again.
Fr there are many as you and my anger us that they let you down. I am the first to say a priest, married, needs a decent professional salary so as to be able to devote himself to the vocation. No more and no less and to keep level with cost of living.
Nikos, if your words are directed at me, let it be known that I am just as much at fault as the people in my flock. Maybe more so, since a priest must hold himself to higher standards.
First of all, at age 24, I was way too young to be ordained a priest. I had only been Orthodox a mere six years. I entered seminary just a year after my baptism. Incidently, the OCA now requires that a person be Orthodox at least three years before entering seminary. I was a deacon for three months before becoming a priest. I would have been better off waiting until the canonical age of thirty(in my case, age 50 would have been better).
If anything, I let God down as well as my flock, because I did not utilize the gifts God gave me. Like the Prodigal Son, I squandered everything. In parish number two, as I said, I didn’t have to work. I was getting $250 a week, plus health insurance for myself and family, plus auto insurance being paid on our two vehicles, plus my income taxes were 100% paid for by the church. That is besides getting a refurbished home with air conditioning, plus additional money from prosphora being sent into the altar, etc.
This was the time when I should have used my talents to get a higher education, but instead I became fat and lazy. I did the services and visited the parishioners, but not much else. I left this parish almost thirty years ago, and sad to say, it has been closed down.
I never really endured any suffering for the Faith, as some of my brother priests have. I was granted to meet two priests who really did suffer for Christ; both from Romania, Fr. George Calciu and Archimandrite Roman(Braga). Looking back, I think that,had everything gone my way, had I not suffered any difficulties, I might have fallen into the sin of pride. I might have been less inclined to repent than I am now. So I thank God that He has revealed to me the need to repent. I like to think that after wandering for 40 years like the children of Israel in the wilderness, that God has blessed me with kind people of whom I am not worthy. I hope that,despite being sinful and unworthy, I may leave this flock better off than when I found them.
Solitary Priest,
“This was the time when I should have used my talents to get a higher education, … I did the services and visited the parishioners, but not much else”.
Don’t worry about THAT!
I think you did the right thing to save souls!
Look at Bartholomew with his higher education,
look at the totally illiterate St. Anthony the Great, the Teacher of the desert!
Have they no fear before God? That they will be called to account for what was entrusted to them? And for the souls driven away?
It’s ugly like one of those Christmas globes with snow falling inside. Totally ugly and dead. An insult to the dead but a fitting memorial for GOA
And no they have no fear of God, if they believe any more.
C J lewis. In short. NO.
The money was diverted to pay molestaion suits. Dimitriou was hired to replace Chris Dimitriades after the Pelham Esplanade scandal led to the resignation of Alex Karloutsos. (Archdiocese funds were invested in a development just as the market crashed. Karloutsos doesn’t believe in buy low, sell high, he chases fads and buys at the top. Karloutsos also lent Archdiocese funds to Catsimatides to buy Gristedes because if the name is Greek, Greeks should own it, not the original Germans. Karloutso sis not only sleazy and neurotic, he is incredibly stupid.)
There is no proof that Fr. Karloutsos, or anyone else for that matteer, at the Archdiocese lent money to Catsimatidis to buy anything. That story has been around the block a few times. If anyone has proof this happened then please post it so all may see and believe. As for money being used to settle molestation suits, insurance paid some and Michael Jaharis (and perhaps others) contributed millions.
Third hand I got same story from a banker who transacted with Johnny Gats
Lakis Velotris says:
January 31, 2018 at 11:05 am
Check out your parish at Property Shark to see how many times it was remortgaged to fund your priest’s resort villas, hatched at Seminary Comedy Club. Priests make a hundred thousand, Protopresbyters 150, archdiocese department directors 200, Sextons 50. And they get “faith based” government grants for child, alcohol, drug and elder programs. Yet they still beg you to remortgage your home to fund them? When Frank Marangos stepped down from comms to run cathedral, he demanded Stepahnopoulos rectory because of the pay cut. As Paul made tents, clergy need day jobs not yiayialand. I’ve been a fly on the wall when priests get together and drunk often enough to know how little they believe. They view it all as an act, learning to tell each yiayia what she wants to hear even if they contradict themselves. After years avoiding slices from dueling finger wagging yiayias they dissociate into abuse.
https://www.thenationalherald.com/189189/demetriou-archdiocese-paid-17-million-pederasty-victims-priests/
Don’t look at me, friend. The most I ever made as a married priest was $250 a week. To be fair, they did give me $400 a month car allowance, plus $400 quarterly towards my income tax. In 42 years of the priesthood, I worked a secular job 33 out of those 42 years. Only parish number 2 provided healthcare for myself and family. So the jobs provided the means of getting medical insurance. Now, I actually make more per week, but without the extras save housing. The people I serve now are so nice that I would have been satisfied without the two raises they did give me.
SP, you sound like a solid guy, and your parishioners as well. We could use more like you, especially in the GOA.
Below please find an article from today in The National Herald. Unfortunately, the article is locked and doesn’t appear in its entirety. I will continue to be on the lookout for the article in its entirety, and if found, I will post.
Analysis: Sad but Expected
By Theodore Kalmoukos
December 3, 2019
https://www.thenationalherald.com/272122/analysis-sad-but-expected/
Below please find an article from yesterday on the Authentic Transparency and Accountability website.
Monday, December 2, 2019
Which GOA Employee will be Arrested Next?
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/12/which-goa-employee-will-be-arrested-next.html?m=1
Below please find an article from today on the Authentic Transparency and Accountability website.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Elpidophoros Admits St. Nicholas Shrine has Failed
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/12/elpidophoros-admits-st-nicholas-shrine.html?m=1
Does any body else on this blogg feel shamed and abused by the total lack of Christian anything apart from verbal dysentry of platitudes of current Orthodox leaders? . Even down to the ones just leading cushy batchelor life.?
Unfortunately for them modernity has given them a kick in the…….. If they have any. What paedophile scandal awaiting us also??
Do they not see that they have nothing to say to any one worth hearing?. Hypocritical a… h ……of no use to human or GOD. My contempt is beyond expression. It is only by God’s mercy that i hang in there amd my memories of Bishop Antony ( Bloom) and Fr Sophrony.
When are greek- Americans and where else applies, going to.stand and call these naked emperor’ s bluff.
Am I the only one to see the pathetic crap masquarading in drag behind dead, empty glory of yesterday? The sooner all is smashed,the sooner Christ MAY GET A LOOK IN
Does any body else on this blogg feel shamed and abused by the total lack of Christian anything apart from verbal dysentry of platitudes of current Orthodox leaders? . Even down to the ones just leading cushy batchelor life.?
Unfortunately for them modernity has given them a kick in the…….. If they have any. What paedophile scandal awaiting us also??
Do they not see that they have nothing to say to any one worth hearing. Hypocritical a… h ……of no use to human or GOD. My contempt is beyond expression. It is only by God’s mercy that i hang in there amd my memories of Bishop Antony ( Bloom) and Fr Sophrony.
When are greek Americans and where else applies, going to stand and call these naked emperor’ s bluff?
Am I the only one to see the pathetic crap masquarading in drag behind dead, empty glory of yesterday? The sooner all is smashed,the sooner Christ MAY GET A LOOK IN.
Below please find an article from today on the Authentic Transparency and Accountability website.
Saturday, December 7, 2019
A Foundation Built on a Lie
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-foundation-built-on-lie.html?m=1
Below please find an article from Thursday on the Authentic Transparency and Accountability website.
Thursday, December 5, 2019
New HCHC President will NOT be a GOA Clergyman
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/12/hchc-new-president-will-not-be-goa.html?m=1
Reading GS’s links, I came across this:
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/12/elpidophoros-admits-st-nicholas-shrine.html
An OCA bishop made a comment on this blog. Very interesting POV, if it is a real OCA bishop.
Below please find an article from yesterday in The National Herald. Also please take note of the comments section below the article.
Blessing (Agiasmos) Service at St. Nicholas Shrine (Vid & Pics)
By TNH Staff
December 9, 2019
https://www.thenationalherald.com/273043/blessing-agiasmos-service-at-st-nicholas-shrine-vid-pics/
Below please find an article from today on the Authentic Transparency and Accountability website.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Election Day for the New HCHC President
And the favorite candidate is?
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/12/election-day-for-new-hchc-president.html?m=1
Below please find another article from today on the Authentic Transparency and Accountability website. Also take note of the comments section below the article.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
BREAKING: HCHC Conference Call Login Details
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/12/breaking-hchc-conference-call-details.html?m=1
Below please find yet another article from yesterday on the Authentic Transparency and Accountability website. Also take note of the comments section below the article.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Accurate Prediction
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/12/accurate-prediction.html?m=1
Below please find an article from today in The National Herald. Unfortunately, the article is locked and doesn’t appear in its entirety. I will continue to be on the lookout for the article in its entirety, and if found, I will post. Also take note of the comments section below the article.
Businessman George Cantonis the New President of Hellenic College Holy Cross School of Theology
By Theodore Kalmoukos
December 11, 2019
https://www.thenationalherald.com/273523/businessman-george-cantonis-the-new-president-of-hellenic-college-holy-cross-school-of-theology/
Particularly see the comment by Repanidi1908.
Below please find an article from Thursday on the Authentic Transparency and Accountability website. Also take note of the comments section below the article.
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Where is the Good Shepherd?
Warning: Details in this submission contains information about an alleged sexual abuse situation in the Greek Orthodox Church of America by a Metropolitan of the Ecumenical Throne.
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/12/where-is-good-shepherd.html?m=1
The last line of that article is a real burn. I expect some lawsuits to come from that. The guys on that site, despite their peculiar view of the Elder Ephraim situation, really do seem to be ruffling feathers at the GOA, and I commend them for that. I can imagine the hammer coming down after this little expose, though.
Below please find an article from Friday on the Authentic Transparency and Accountability website. Also take note of the comments section below the article.
Friday, December 13, 2019
We Need Jerry Dimitriou
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/12/we-need-jerry-dimitriou.html?m=1
Below please find an article from today in The National Herald.
Ecumenical Patriarch Declares Mount Athos and Constantinople Are Not Separate Entities
By TNH Staff
December 17, 2019
https://www.thenationalherald.com/274396/ecumenical-patriarch-declares-mount-athos-and-constantinople-are-not-separate-entities/
Below please find another article from today in The National Herald.
Archimandrite Maximos Constas new Interim Dean of Holy Cross Theological School
By TNH Staff
December 17, 2019
https://www.thenationalherald.com/274342/archimandrite-maximos-constas-new-interim-dean-of-holy-cross-theological-school/
Below please find an article from today in The National Herald.
Orthodox Theologians, Therapists, and Physicians Gather at Chicago OCAMPR/OTSA Conference
By TNH Staff
December 19, 2019
https://www.thenationalherald.com/274717/orthodox-theologians-therapists-and-physicians-gather-at-chicago-ocampr-otsa-conference/
Below please find another article from today in The National Herald.
Ecumenical Patriarchate Honors the Memory of the Late Metropolitan Meliton (Hatzis) of Chalcedon
By TNH Staff
December 19, 2019
https://www.thenationalherald.com/274696/ecumenical-patriarchate-honors-the-memory-of-the-late-metropolitan-meliton-hatzis-of-chalcedon/
Below please find an article from yesterday on the Authentic Transparency and Accountability website.
Friday, December 20, 2019
The Real Priorities of the Archbishop
Where was Archbishop Elpidophoros on Saturday December 14th?
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-priorities-of-archbishop.html?m=1
Below please find an article from yesterday on the Authentic Transparency and Accountability website.
Friday, December 20, 2019
The Real Priorities of the Archbishop
Where was Archbishop Elpidophoros on Saturday December 14th?
http://protectingorthodoxchurch.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-priorities-of-archbishop.html?m=1
Below please find an article from today in The National Herald.
Archbishop Elpidophoros Stands with Jewish Community
By TNH Staff
December 30, 2019
https://www.thenationalherald.com/276900/archbishop-elpidophoros-stands-with-jewish-community/