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The National Herald - September 23-29, 2023

Former and Current Metropolitan Evangelos
and Apostolos of New Jersey at the Synod of the Phanar

By Theodore Kalmoukos

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As also revealed by The National Herald, Elpidophoros had set a goal for himself even before his enthronement to take over the New Jersey Metropolis and attach it to the Direct Archdiocesan District. His plan was disclosed by a cleric who was a close collaborator of Elpidophoros to a friend of Evangelos in Thessaloniki, and this information later came to the knowledge of the Patriarchate and Bartholomew.

Since then, Evangelos has been marginalized, while Elpidophoros seizes every opportunity to disparage him, as he did at the Leadership 100 conference in Arizona, an incident that was also recorded. At the same conference, he also criticized Archbishop Spyridon, the former Archbishop of America, whom he had even honored at the Clergy-Laity Congress in July of 2022.

Patriarch Bartholomew apologized to the hierarchs of the Eparchial Synod during their meeting on April 5, 2022, as revealed in the Phanar’s Confidential Report, for what transpired in the Archdiocese of America regarding the suspension and reinstatement of the Charter, the removal of Evangelos, and the three-months-suspension of Metropolitan Methodios of Boston.

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[ The National Herald - September 23-29, 2023 - p. 12 ]

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